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# פְּנִינִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6443

**corals** — used 6 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

corals [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6443/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּנִינִים: pl. corals [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6443/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\]pl. corals (? as branching, cf. Arabic فَنَنٌ branch of tree; so Mich Thes al.; \> pearls BoHieroz. 601 Di Jb after Ra al.);—פ׳ fig. of value Pr 20:15; usu.מִפּ׳, comp. Jb 28:18; Pr 3:15 (Kt מפניים), 8:11; 31:10 (all of value), La 4:7 (of red colour); + ψ 45:14 (perhaps; for פְּנִימָה, q.v.).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: than corals (5); of jewels (1).

## In the verses

[Job 28:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.18/#tree)

רָאמ֣וֹת וְ֭גָבִישׁ לֹ֣א יִזָּכֵ֑ר וּמֶ֥שֶׁךְ חָ֝כְמָ֗ה מִפְּנִינִֽים׃

*Word for word:* corals and crystal not it.is.remembered and.\[the\] price of.wisdom \[is\].more than.corals

*JPS 1917:* No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

[Proverbs 20:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.15/#tree)

יֵ֣שׁ זָ֭הָב וְרָב־פְּנִינִ֑ים וּכְלִ֥י יְ֝קָ֗ר שִׂפְתֵי־דָֽעַת׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\] gold and abundance of.jewels and.\[are\] an.article of.preciousness lips of.knowledge

*JPS 1917:* There is gold, and a multitude of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6443.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6443/): 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).