penima · inside

What it means

penima (פְּנִימָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “inside”.

Toward the inside, within.

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. Toward the inside part of a building.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• inside ×10
• within ×2
• inner part ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Psalms×1
• Ezekiel×3

• Leviticus 10:18

  Look, its blood was not brought into the Holy Place within; you should certainly have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.”

• 1 Kings 6:18

  And the cedar of the house inside had carvings of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar; no stone was seen.

• 1 Kings 6:19

  And the inner sanctuary in the midst of the house on the inside he prepared, to put there the ark of the covenant of YHWH.

• 1 Kings 6:21

  And Solomon overlaid the house on the inside with fine gold; and he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary and overlaid it with gold.

• 1 Kings 6:30

  And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.

• 2 Kings 7:11

  The gatekeepers called out, and they told it to the king’s household inside.

• 2 Chronicles 3:4

  The portico that was at the front, along the length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it inside with pure gold.

• 2 Chronicles 29:16

  The priests went into the inner part of the house of YHWH to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of YHWH to the court of the house of YHWH; and the Levites received it to carry it out to the brook Kidron, outside.

• 2 Chronicles 29:18

  Then they went inside to Hezekiah the king and said, “We have cleansed all the house of YHWH, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table of the row and all its utensils.

• Psalms 45:13

  All glorious is the daughter of the king within; of settings of gold is her clothing.

• Ezekiel 40:16

  And there were closed windows toward the guardrooms and toward their pilasters inside the gate all around, and likewise for the porticoes; and windows all around, inside; and on each pilaster were palm trees.

• Ezekiel 41:3

  And he went inside and measured the pilaster of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits.

And 1 more times.