פְּנִ֫ימָה
within
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where H6441 appears — 12 distinct verses across 6 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 1 verse
1 Kings 4 verses
- 1 Kings 6:18 פְּנִ֔ימָה adv There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
- 1 Kings 6:19 מִ/פְּנִ֖ימָה prep + adv He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 6:21 מִ/פְּנִ֖ימָה prep + adv So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
- 1 Kings 6:30 לִ/פְנִ֖ימָה prep + adv The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.
2 Kings 1 verse
2 Chronicles 3 verses
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 מִ/פְּנִ֖ימָה prep + adv The porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 29:16 לִ/פְנִ֣ימָה prep + adv The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.
- 2 Chronicles 29:18 פְנִ֨ימָה֙ adv Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within [the palace], and said, We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels of it, and the table of show bread, with all the vessels of it.
Psalms 1 verse
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 40:16 לִ/פְנִ֤ימָה לִ/פְנִ֔ימָה prep + adv prep + adv There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.
- Ezekiel 41:3 לִ/פְנִ֔ימָה prep + adv Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew verb פנימה centers on the idea of “within.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “within” in the King James Version, “inside” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 12 verses across 6 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to 1 Kings (33%), then 2 Chronicles and Ezekiel. Its earliest occurrence is Leviticus 10:18. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6441 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Kings 4 verses 33%
- 2 Chronicles 3 verses 25%
- Ezekiel 2 verses 17%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 58%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 33%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Within 10×
- American Standard Version: Within 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Inside 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Within 6×, Inside 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6441 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6441 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6441 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6441 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. after vb. of motion Lv 10:18; 2 Ch 29:18, and (after הִגִּיד) 2 K 7:11, also לִפ׳ Ez 41:3; 2 Ch 29:16. e.g. Leviticus 10:18
- 2. פ׳ 1 K 6:18, also לִפ׳ v 30, so read also v 29 (for MT מִלִּפְנִים, v. KmpKau Kit Benz), Ez 40:16(×2), also ψ 45:14 MT, i.e. within the house, but Krochm Gr Che al. (plausibly) פְּנִינִים, q.v.; מִפּ׳ 1 K 6:19, 21 = 2 Ch 3:4. e.g. 1 Kings 6:18
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
adv. (ה loc.) 1. towards the (in-) side. 2. within (lit. faceward, from point of view of one entering by opposite door);—of a building, usually temple:
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פנים (pânîym) (H6440) — face.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H6441 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִ/פְּנִ֖ימָה | Adverb | 1 Kings 6:19 | 3 |
| לִ/פְנִ֔ימָה | Adverb | Ezekiel 40:16 | 2 |
| פְּנִ֑ימָה | Adverb | Leviticus 10:18 | 2 |
| לִ/פְנִ֖ימָה | Adverb | 1 Kings 6:30 | 1 |
| לִ/פְנִ֣ימָה | Adverb | 2 Chronicles 29:16 | 1 |
| לִ/פְנִ֤ימָה | Adverb | Ezekiel 40:16 | 1 |
| פְנִ֨ימָה֙ | Adverb | 2 Chronicles 29:18 | 1 |
| פְּנִ֔ימָה | Adverb | 1 Kings 6:18 | 1 |
| פְּנִֽימָה | Adverb | 2 Kings 7:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6441, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
