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# פִּנָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6438

**corner** — used 31 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

corner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6438/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּנָּה: n.f. corner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6438/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. corner;—abs. פ׳ 2 K 14:13 +, cstr. פִּנַּת Je 31:40 +; sf. פִּנָּתָהּ Jb 38:9, פִּנָּהּ Pr 7:8 (Ges§ 91 e); pl. פִּנּוֹת abs. Zp 1:16 2 Ch 26:15, פִּנִּים Zc 14:10; cstr. פִּנּוֹת 1 K 7:34 +, etc.;— corner, of square objects 1 K 7:34 + v 30 (read פִּנּוֹתָיו for פַּעֲמֹתָיו, cf. Kit), Ex 27:2; 38:2; Ez 43:20; 45:19; of house Jb 1:19, roof Pr 7:12; 21:9 = 25:24; אֶבֶן לְפ׳ Je 51:26 i.e. a corner-stone; אֶבֶן פ׳ of earth Jb 38:9; cf. (fig.) ψ 118:22, and (אבן om.) Is 28:16; פ׳ = street-corner 2 Ch 28:24. specif. of wall of Jerus., Ne 3:24 (in SE.), v 31, 32 (NE.); שַׁעַר הַפּ׳ 2 K 14:13 + ‖ 2 Ch 25:23 𝔊 𝔖 𝔗 and most (for MT שׁ׳ הַפּוֹנֶה), + (v. שַׁעַר); הַפִּנּוֹת appar. with battlements 2 Ch 26:15; of cities in gen. הַפּ׳ הַגְּבֹהוֹת Zp 1:16; of the nations 3:6. fig. of chief, ruler as corner (support or defence), Ju 20:2; 1 S 14:38; Is 19:13 (read perhaps pl.); Zc 10:4 (+ יָתֵד q.v.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the corner (7); the corners (7); corners (5).

## In the verses

[Psalms 118:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.22/#tree)

אֶ֭בֶן מָאֲס֣וּ הַבּוֹנִ֑ים הָ֝יְתָ֗ה לְרֹ֣אשׁ פִּנָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.stone \[which\].they.rejected the builders it.has.become (into).\[the\] head of.\[the\].corner

*JPS 1917:* The stone which the builders rejected is become the chief corner-stone.

[Job 38:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.6/#tree)

עַל־מָ֭ה אֲדָנֶ֣יהָ הָטְבָּ֑עוּ א֥וֹ מִֽי־יָ֝רָ֗ה אֶ֣בֶן פִּנָּתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* on what? bases its were.they.sunk or who? did.he.lay the.stone its.corner her

*JPS 1917:* Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6438.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6438/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).