- בינין
- בִּנְיָן, בִּינְיָןm. (b. h.; בָּנָה) 1) building, structure; erection. Succ.51b מי שלא ראהבה״מ בבִנְיָנוֹ whoever has not seen the Temple in its finished state, expl. ibid. בִּנְיַן הורדוס the Herodian Temple (Ms. M. … ראה בניןבה״מ; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).אַמַּת הב׳, v. אַמָּה.Sabb.102b דרך ב׳ בכן such kind of labor belongs to builders work. Ib. דמי לב׳ it looks like builders work; a. fr.בִּנְיַן אב standard rule, v. אָב; v. Ḥull.78b, B. Kam.77b זה בנה אב this (Ex. 12:5) forms the rule, wherever שה is used (v. Tosaf. a. l.).Sabb.114a בִּנְיָנוֹ של עולם the preservation of the (mental and moral) world. 2) human frame, skeleton. Ohol. II, 1 רוב בניינו the greater portion of a corpse as to size of limbs, contrad. to רוב מניינו the larger as to the number of joints and limbs.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.