Lexicon :: Strong's G3618 - oikodomeō

Then the LORD God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son.

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,

And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.”

So from there the LORD scattered them throughout the earth, and they stopped building the city.

The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[fn] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac[fn] and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

So he built an altar there, called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. Isaac’s servants also dug a well there.

Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel[fn] because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.

And Moses built an altar and named it, “The LORD Is My Banner.”[fn]

“If you make a stone altar for me, do not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of it and made an announcement: “There will be a festival to the LORD tomorrow.”

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

Therefore the poets[fn] say:

Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt;

let the city of Sihon be restored.[fn]

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

So Balak took him to Lookout Field[fn] on top of Pisgah, built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Balaam told Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

Then they approached him and said, “We want to build sheep pens here for our livestock and cities for our dependents.

“Build cities for your dependents and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give you ​— ​a land with large and beautiful cities that you did not build,

“When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in,

“The officers are to address the army, ‘Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.

“But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce food. You may cut them down to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.

“If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

“then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will declare, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

“Build an altar of stones there to the LORD your God ​— ​do not use any iron tool on them.

“You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.

At that time Joshua imposed this curse:

The man who undertakes

the rebuilding of this city, Jericho,

is cursed before the LORD.

He will lay its foundation

at the cost of his firstborn;

he will finish its gates

at the cost of his youngest.

At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,

By the LORD’s command, they gave him the city Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, which he requested. He rebuilt the city and lived in it.

Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.

When they came to the region of[fn] the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh built a large, impressive altar there by the Jordan.

“This is what the LORD’s entire community says: ‘What is this treachery you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building an altar for yourselves, so that you are in rebellion against the LORD today?

“But if the land you possess is defiled, cross over to the land the LORD possesses where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it among us. But don’t rebel against the LORD or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.

“that we have built for ourselves an altar to turn away from him. May the LORD himself hold us accountable if we intended to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings on it, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it.

“Therefore we said: Let’s take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offering or sacrifice.

“We would never ever rebel against the LORD or turn away from him today by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the LORD our God, which is in front of his tabernacle.”

“I gave you a land you did not labor for, and cities you did not build, though you live in them; you are eating from vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

Then the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a town, and named it Luz. That is its name still today.