pina · corner

What it means

pina (פִּנָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “corner”.

Also the chief stone of a corner or, figuratively, a leader.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The angle of a building; the main stone holding it.
2. The leaders of the people.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• corner ×14
• corners ×9
• cornerstone ×4
• leading men ×1
• principal men ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Nehemiah×3
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×2
• Zephaniah×2
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 27:2

  You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

• Exodus 38:2

  And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it; and he overlaid it with bronze.

• Judges 20:2

  And the leading men of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, took their stand in the assembly of the people of Elohim, four hundred thousand foot soldiers who drew the sword.

• 1 Samuel 14:38

  Saul said, “Come near here, all the principal men of the people, and know and see in what this sin has been today.

• 1 Kings 7:34

  And four supports were at the four corners of each base; its supports were of the base itself.

• 2 Kings 14:13

  And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash son of Ahaziah, Joash king of Israel seized at Beth-shemesh; and he came to Jerusalem and made a breach in the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 26:9

  Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem on the Corner Gate and on the Valley Gate and on the angle, and fortified them.

• 2 Chronicles 26:15

  He made in Jerusalem devices, the invention of an inventor, to be on the towers and on the corners, to shoot arrows and large stones. And his name went out far, for he was marvelously helped until he was strong.

• 2 Chronicles 28:24

  Ahaz gathered the utensils of the house of Elohim and cut in pieces the utensils of the house of Elohim, and shut the doors of the house of YHWH, and made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

• Nehemiah 3:24

  After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired a second section, from the house of Azariah to the angle and to the corner.

• Nehemiah 3:31

  After him Malchijah the son of the silversmith repaired as far as the house of the Nethinim and of the traders, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the upper room of the corner.

• Nehemiah 3:32

  And between the upper room of the corner and the Sheep Gate the silversmiths and the traders repaired.

• Job 1:19

  and look, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died, and I escaped, only I, I alone, to tell you.”

• Job 38:6

  On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,

• Psalms 118:22

  The stone that the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

• Proverbs 7:8

  passing through the street near her corner, and on the way to her house he marched,

• Proverbs 7:12

  now in the street, now in the squares, and beside every corner she lies in wait.

• Proverbs 21:9

  Better to live on a corner of the roof than with a woman of quarrels in a shared house.

• Proverbs 25:24

  Better to live on a corner of the roof than with a woman of quarrels in a shared house.

• Isaiah 19:13

  The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have led astray Egypt, the cornerstone of its tribes.

• Isaiah 28:16

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: “Look, I have laid as a foundation in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a foundation well founded; the one who believes will not hurry.

• Jeremiah 31:38

  Look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when the city will be built for YHWH, from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the Corner.

• Jeremiah 31:40

  And the whole valley of the corpses and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, as far as the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, will be holiness to YHWH; it will not be uprooted or demolished anymore, forever.”

• Jeremiah 51:26

  And they will not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; for you will be eternal desolations, declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 43:20

  And you shall take some of its blood and put it on its four horns and on the four corners of the ledge and on the border all around; and you shall purify it from sin and make expiation for it.

• Ezekiel 45:19

  And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorpost of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.

• Zephaniah 1:16

  a day of the horn and of the alarm cry against the fortified cities and against the high corners.

• Zephaniah 3:6

  “I have cut off nations; their corners are desolate; I have laid waste their streets, with no one passing through; their cities are destroyed, without a man, without an inhabitant.

• Zechariah 10:4

  From him the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the bow of war; from him will come out every ruler, together.