يَا هَامَانُ ابْنِ لِي صَرْحًا
O Hāmān, build for me a lofty structure. (Ghāfir 40:36)
Pharaoh commands Hāmān to build. The imperative addresses him, but does not necessarily require that he personally lift the bricks: the project may be executed through workers under his direction.
This illustrates the need to distinguish broad ordinary usage from specifically figurative attribution. If “build” conventionally extends to someone who commissions or manages building, then physical nonparticipation alone does not prove metaphor. Custom, authority and contextual evidence must be assessed.