פְּנִימִי
inner
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6442 appears in the Book of Esther — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Esther
- Esther 4:11 הַ/פְּנִימִ֜ית ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.
- Esther 5:1 הַ/פְּנִימִ֔ית ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs Now it happened on the third day, that Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance of the house.
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.
At its core, פנימי (pᵉnîymîy) means “inner.” The word gravitates to Ezekiel (72%), then 1 Kings and Esther. It turns up in 29 verses across 5 books, a moderately common footprint. Scripture first uses it in 1 Kings 6:27. It shares a root with פנים, לפני and פנימה. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6442 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 →
- 29
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 29 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,086
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,086 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 29 occurrences in the concordance →
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 29 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 25 verses · 86%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 14%
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: Inner 27×
- American Standard Version: Inner 26×
- Berean Standard Bible: Inner 23×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Inner 27×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6442 across 32 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6442 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 H6442 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6442 across 32 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.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- inner
Word origin
Derived from פנים (pânîym) (H6440) — face.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פְּנִימִי
- inner, interior, innermost, central. Erub. 65ᵇ ישראל ונכרי בפ׳ וכ׳ if an Israelite and a gentile live in the inner court, and an Israelite in the outer court. Ib. פ׳ במקומו מהו dare the resident of the inner court move things within its precincts? Tanḥ. Naso 5 פתח את הפ׳ וכ׳ he opened the central door and went to the outer room. Zeb. 51ᵃ, a. fr. מזבה הפ׳ the inner altar (in the Holy); a. v. fr.—Gen. R. s. 21 (ref. to פלמוני, Dan. VIII, 13) תרגם עקילס לפ׳ … לפנים ממלאכי וכ׳ Aquila translated it ‘to him who was inside’, which means Adam whose partitioned seat was in front of the ministering angels (v. פְּנִים); Yalk. Dan. 1066.—Pl. פְּנִימִיִּים; f. פְּנִימִיּוֹת. Zeb. 52ᵇ דמים הפ׳ blood to be sprinkled in the Holy; שיריים הפ׳ the remnants of blood sprinkled in the Holy. Tam. I, 4; Y. Yoma II, 39ᶜ, v. אָכַל; a. fr. e.g. Daniel 8:13
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 17 distinct written forms H6442 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/פְּנִימִ֔י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:23 | 4 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִ֔ית | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Esther 5:1 | 4 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִ֖י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:27 | 3 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִֽית | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 10:3 | 3 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִית֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 8:3 | 3 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִ֑י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:15 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִ֖ית | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 44:17 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִ֜י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:44 | 2 |
| בַּ/פְּנִימִ֥י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 41:17 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִ֖ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 28:11 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִ֗י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:27 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִ֛י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:19 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִ֜ית | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Esther 4:11 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִ֨י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 41:17 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִי֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:44 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִיּ֜וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 4:22 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּנִימִית֒ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 8:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6442, 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 29 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 29 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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