Inner
פְּנִימִיStrong’s H6442penimi (pe-ni-mi)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Penimi is the Hebrew word usually translated “inner”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.”
Meaning
- Inner
How it's translated
- inner 29
- the inner 2
- in the inner 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 21
- 1 Kings 4
- Esther 2
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 6:36And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7:12And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
- 1 Kings 7:50And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
- 1 Chronicles 28:11Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,
- 2 Chronicles 4:22And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
- Esther 4:11All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
Hebrew dictionary
פְּנִימִי penimi · inner
inner
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “inner” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
IN'NER, adjective
[from in.]
Interior; farther inward than something else, as an inner chamber; the inner court of a temple or palace.
- Interior; internal; not outward; as the inner man. Ephesians 3:16
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.