1 Kings 8:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בָּנֹ֥ה בָנִ֛יתִי בֵּ֥ית זְבֻ֖ל לָ֑ךְ מָכ֥וֹן לְשִׁבְתְּךָ֖ עוֹלָמִֽים

Transliteration

Bānōh bānîtî house of zəḇul for you mākôn for your šiḇtəkā ʿôlāmîm

Grammar Details

• *bānōh*: Qal infinitive absolute - to build
• *bānîtî*: Qal perfect 1st singular - I have built
• *bêt*: common noun, masculine singular construct - house of
• *zəḇul*: common noun, masculine singular - lofty dwelling
• *lāk*: preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - for you
• *mākôn*: common noun, masculine singular - fixed place, foundation
• *lə*: preposition - for
• *šiḇtəkā*: Qal infinitive construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your dwelling
• *ʿôlāmîm*: common noun, masculine plural - eternity, forever

Word Meanings

• *bānōh* *bānîtî*: I have surely built, I have indeed built (emphatic construction)
• *zəḇul*: lofty dwelling, exalted habitation, princely dwelling
• *mākôn*: fixed place, foundation, established place
• *šiḇtəkā*: your dwelling, your residing, your habitation
• *ʿôlāmîm*: forever, for all time, eternally

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 7:13 : 13 He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.
• Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place. 14 This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.
• Exod 15:17 : 17 You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.
• John 4:21-23 : 21 Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22 You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews. 23 But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.
• Acts 6:14 : 14 For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.
• Heb 8:5-9 : 5 Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain. 6 But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things. 7 For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second. 8 For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; 9 Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord. 10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people: 11 And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small. 12 And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind. 13 When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.
• Heb 9:11-12 : 11 But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world, 12 And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.
• Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.
• 1 Chr 17:12 : 12 He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.
• 1 Chr 22:10-11 : 10 He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever. 11 Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do well, and put up the house of the Lord your God, as he has said of you.
• 1 Chr 28:6 : 6 And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder of my house and the open spaces round it; for I have taken him to be my son, and I will be his father.
• 1 Chr 28:10 : 10 Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection of you to be the builder of a house for the holy place. Be strong and do it.
• 1 Chr 28:20 : 20 And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a good heart and do your work; have no fear and do not be troubled, for the Lord God, my God, is with you; he will not give you up, and his face will not be turned away from you, till all the work necessary for the house of the Lord is complete.
• 2 Chr 6:2 : 2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.
• Ps 78:68-69 : 68 But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure. 69 And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.