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# פְּנִימָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6441

**faceward** — used 14 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

faceward [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6441/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּנִ֫ימָה: adv. towards the (in-) side within [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6441/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. (ה loc.) 1. towards the (in-) side. 2. within (lit. faceward, from point of view of one entering by opposite door);—of a building, usually temple: after vb. of motion Lv 10:18; 2 Ch 29:18, and (after הִגִּיד) 2 K 7:11, also לִפ׳ Ez 41:3; 2 Ch 29:16. פ׳ 1 K 6:18, also לִפ׳ v 30, so read also v 29 (for MT מִלִּפְנִים, v. KmpKau Kit Benz), Ez 40:16(×2), also ψ 45:14 MT, i.e. within the house, but Krochm Gr Che al. (plausibly) פְּנִינִים, q.v.; מִפּ׳ 1 K 6:19, 21 = 2 Ch 3:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: within (13); faces (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 7:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.7.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.7.11/#tree)

וַיִּקְרָ֖א הַשֹּֽׁעֲרִ֑ים וַיַּגִּ֕ידוּ בֵּ֥ית הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ פְּנִֽימָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.called.out the gatekeepers and they.told the.household of the.king within

*JPS 1917:* And the porters called, and they told it to the king's household within.

[Psalms 45:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.14/#tree)

כָּל־כְּבוּדָּ֣ה בַת־מֶ֣לֶךְ פְּנִ֑ימָה מִֽמִּשְׁבְּצ֖וֹת זָהָ֣ב לְבוּשָֽׁהּ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].all glorious a.daughter of.a.king within \[is\].from settings of.gold clothing her

*JPS 1917:* All glorious is the king's daughter within the palace; her raiment is of chequer work inwrought with gold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6441.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6441/): 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).