Genesis 3:16
| 137 | Son/Daughter⇒Builder/Built-one Strong’s #1121, ben. The words “builder” and “built-one” (ben, bat) are from the root banah, #1129 to build. As Eve in Gen (a “built-one”) is built See note on Gen 1:24. Compare this statement with the messenger’s words to Hagar in Genesis 16:10. “Narrow [Enoch], and he is becoming he-who-builds [boneh] a city..” Gen. 4:17 literal “He-who-builds [boneh] Jerusalem is Yahweh; those-who-are-pushed-down of El-Strives [Israel] Yahweh is gathering.” Psa. 147:2 literal “Which our builders [sons], like plants, growing-great [gadal] in their youths, our built-ones [daughters] are according to the corner-pillars of those-who-are-cut of a building-pattern [tabanit] of a temple.” Psalm 144:12 literal “And Yahweh elohim is building [banah] אֶת-the rib which he has taken from the Red-one to a Woman…” Gen 2:22 literal “And she [Rachel] is saying, `Behold, my slavewoman Troubled, come in toward her, and she is bearing upon my knees, and I am being built up [banah], also myself, from her.`” Gen. 30:3 literal The term “building” in the transitive is seemingly limited to the masculine [sons] only. The feminine noun tabanit building-pattern, construction is also from the root banah and is found 20 times in scripture. There are 12 instances of תִבְנֶ֥ה tibneh for 2nd person masculine singular, but no instances of the 3rd person feminine singular tibneh she is building. Cf. https://biblehub.com/hebrew/tivneh_1129.htm |