Corner
פִּנָּהStrong’s H6438pinnah (pin-nah)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pinnah is the Hebrew word usually translated “corners of”, “corner” and “corner of”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.”
Meaning
- Cornercorner (of square objects) · corner (of ruler or chief-fig.)
- Cornercorner (of square objects) · corner (of ruler or chief-fig.)
How it's translated
- corners of 6
- the corner 6
- corner 3
- corner of 3
- corners its 2
- the corners 2
- a corner of 2
- corner its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Nehemiah 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Exodus 2
- Job 2
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 27:2And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
- Exodus 38:2And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
- Judges 20:2And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
- 1 Samuel 14:38And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
- 1 Kings 7:34And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
- 2 Kings 14:13And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
Hebrew dictionary
פֵּן pen · Corner
1) corner 1a) corner (of square objects) 1b) corner (of ruler or chief-fig.) Name of a gate (H6438)
פִּנָּה pinnah · corner
1) corner 1a) corner (of square objects) 1b) corner (of ruler or chief-fig.) Also means: pen (פֵּן "Corner" H6434)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “corner” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CORNER, noun
[See Horn and Grain.]
- The point where two converging lines meet; properly, the external point; an angle; as, we meet at the corner of the state-house, or at the corner of two streets.
- The interior point where two lines meet; an angle.
- The space between two converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An inclosed place; a secret or retired place.“This thing was not done in a corner” Acts 26:26
All definitions
- Indefinitely any part; a part.
- The end, extremity or limit; as the corners of the head or beard. and 19. Leviticus 21:5
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.