Three consonants carry one idea: building, raising a structure stone by stone. The verb erects, and the nouns name what is raised: the builder, the act of building, the building itself, even the abstract pattern a thing is built on. Hebrew grammar borrows this very word, binyan, for its verb-stems, because each binyan is a mould you pour a root into. Every word here is verified against pealim, niqqud included.
The same root runs through the verb system. Each binyan is a voice: it bends the one idea into active, passive, causative or reciprocal. Tap to hear.
Three of the seven binyanim are lexicalized here: the plain act (pa'al), its passive (nif'al), and the causative-shaping hif'il "to structure". The pi'el and hitpa'el slots are not filled for this root, which is normal: a root rarely occupies all seven moulds.
Same root letters, different noun moulds (mishkalim). The mould tells you the function: who does it, the act of doing it, or the thing produced.
Strip the prefixes, suffixes and vowels. Three consonants remain, and the meaning lives there.