Within
פְּנִ֫ימָהStrong’s H6441penimah (pe-ni-mah)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Penimah is the Hebrew word usually translated “within” and “from within”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.”
Meaning
- Toward the inside, within, faceward
How it's translated
- within 5
- to within 5
- from within 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 4
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Ezekiel 2
- Leviticus 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Psalms 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 6:18And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
- 1 Kings 6:19And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 6:21So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
- 1 Kings 6:30And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
- 2 Kings 7:11And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within.
- 2 Chronicles 3:4And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
Hebrew dictionary
פְּנִ֫ימָה penimah · within
toward the inside, within, faceward
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “within” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WITHIN, preposition
- In the inner part; as the space within the walls of a house; a man contented and happy within himself.
- In the limits or compass of; not beyond; used of place and time.
- Not reaching to any thing external.
- In the compass of; not longer ago than.
All definitions and other forms of “within”
- Not later than; as, within five days from this time, it will be fair weather.
- In the reach of.
- Not exceeding.
- In the heart or confidence of. [Inelegant.]
- In the house; in any inclosure.
WITHIN, adverb
- In the inner part; inwardly; internally.
- In the mind.
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.