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# פְּנִנָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6444

**Peninnah** — used 3 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

Peninnah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6444/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּנִנָּה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6444/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (proposes sg. of foregoing?) wife of Elkanah 1 S 1:2(×2), 4, Φεννανα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Peninnah (2); \[was\] Peninnah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.4/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י הַיּ֔וֹם וַיִּזְבַּ֖ח אֶלְקָנָ֑ה וְנָתַ֞ן לִפְנִנָּ֣ה אִשְׁתּ֗וֹ וּֽלְכָל־בָּנֶ֛יהָ וּבְנוֹתֶ֖יהָ מָנֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the day and he.sacrificed Elkanah and he.gave to Peninnah wife his and to all sons her and daughters her portions

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass upon a day, when Elkanah sacrificed, that he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;

[1 Samuel 1:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.2/#tree)

וְלוֹ֙ שְׁתֵּ֣י נָשִׁ֔ים שֵׁ֤ם אַחַת֙ חַנָּ֔ה וְשֵׁ֥ם הַשֵּׁנִ֖ית פְּנִנָּ֑ה וַיְהִ֤י לִפְנִנָּה֙ יְלָדִ֔ים וּלְחַנָּ֖ה אֵ֥ין יְלָדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[belonged\] to him two wives \[the\].name of.one \[was\].Hannah and the.name of the.second \[was\].Peninnah and it.was \[belonged\].to Peninnah children and to Hannah there.\[belonged\].not children

*JPS 1917:* And he had two wives: the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6444/): 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).