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Rootب ن ي
English Translationto construct, to build
Frequency11
FormI
Surah Ash-Shams (91:5) Quran.com
وَالسَّمَاءِ وَمَا بَنَاهَا And [by] the sky and He who constructed it (Sahih International)
Surah An Naziat (79:27) Quran.com
أَأَنْتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ السَّمَاءُ بَنَاهَا Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it. (Sahih International)
Surah An Naba (78:12) Quran.com
وَبَنَيْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعًا شِدَادًا And constructed above you seven strong [heavens] (Sahih International)
Surah Adh-Dhariyat (51:47) Quran.com
وَالسَّمَاءَ بَنَيْنَاهَا بِأَيْدٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander. (Sahih International)
Surah Qaf (50:6) Quran.com
أَفَلَمْ يَنْظُرُوا إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَوْقَهُمْ كَيْفَ بَنَيْنَاهَا Have they not looked at the heaven above them - how We structured it and adorned it and [how] it has no rifts? (Sahih International)
Surah As-Saffat (37:97) Quran.com
قَالُوا ابْنُوا لَهُ بُنْيَانًا فَأَلْقُوهُ فِي الْجَحِيمِ They said, "Construct for him a furnace and throw him into the burning fire." (Sahih International)
Surah Ash-Shuara (26:128) Quran.com
أَتَبْنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ آيَةً تَعْبَثُونَ Do you construct on every elevation a sign, amusing yourselves, (Sahih International)
Surah At-Tawbah (9:110) Quran.com
لَا يَزَالُ بُنْيَانُهُمُ الَّذِي بَنَوْا رِيبَةً فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ Their building which they built will not cease to be a [cause of] skepticism in their hearts until their hearts are stopped. And Allah is Knowing and Wise. (Sahih International)
Surah At-Tahrim (66:11) Quran.com
إِذْ قَالَتْ رَبِّ ابْنِ لِي عِنْدَكَ بَيْتًا فِي الْجَنَّةِ And Allah presents an example of those who believed: the wife of Pharaoh, when she said, "My Lord, build for me near You a house in Paradise and save me from Pharaoh and his deeds and save me from the wrongdoing people." (Sahih International)
Surah Ghafir (40:36) Quran.com
وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يَا هَامَانُ ابْنِ لِي صَرْحًا لَعَلِّي أَبْلُغُ الْأَسْبَابَ And Pharaoh said, "O Haman, construct for me a tower that I might reach the ways - (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Kahf (18:21) Quran.com
فَقَالُوا ابْنُوا عَلَيْهِمْ بُنْيَانًا رَبُّهُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِهِمْ And similarly, We caused them to be found that they [who found them] would know that the promise of Allah is truth and that of the Hour there is no doubt. [That was] when they disputed among themselves about their affair and [then] said, "Construct over them a structure. Their Lord is most knowing about them." Said those who prevailed in the matter, "We will surely take [for ourselves] over them a masjid." (Sahih International)
This is the end of the list. بَنَىٰ was only mentioned 11 times in the Quran.
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