penimi · inner

What it means

penimi (פְּנִימִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “inner”.

Inside: what is in the innermost part of a building.

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. Further in: the court further in.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• inner ×30
• inside ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Esther×2
• Ezekiel×24

• 1 Kings 6:27

  And he put the cherubim in the middle of the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were spread out, so that the wing of the one touched the wall, and the wing of the second cherub was touching the second wall, and their wings toward the middle of the house were touching wing to wing.

• 1 Kings 6:36

  And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of beams of cedar.

• 1 Kings 7:12

  And the great court all around had three rows of hewn stone and a row of beams of cedar, as also for the inner court of the house of YHWH and the portico of the house.

• 1 Kings 7:50

  and the cups, and the tongs, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the firepans, of fine gold; and the sockets for the doors of the inner house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the house, the temple, of gold.

• 1 Chronicles 28:11

  David gave Solomon his son the pattern of the portico and of its houses, its treasure rooms, its upper rooms, its inner chambers, and of the house of the cover of expiation;

• 2 Chronicles 4:22

  the tongs, the bowls, the spoons, and the firepans, of fine gold; and the entrance of the house: its inner doors for the Most Holy Place, and the doors of the house for the temple, of gold.

• Esther 4:11

  “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes in to the king, into the inner court, who has not been called, his law is one: to put him to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, and he will live. But I have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days.”

• Esther 5:1

  And it happened on the third day that Esther put on royalty and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, opposite the king’s house; and the king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal house, opposite the entrance of the house.

• Ezekiel 8:3

  And he stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and a spirit lifted me between the earth and the heavens and brought me to Jerusalem in visions of Elohim, to the entrance of the gate of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the statue of jealousy that provokes jealousy.

• Ezekiel 8:16

  And he brought me to the inner court of the house of YHWH, and look, at the entrance of the temple of YHWH, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, their backs toward the temple of YHWH and their faces eastward, and they were bowing down eastward to the sun.

• Ezekiel 10:3

  And the cherubim were standing on the right side of the house when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

• Ezekiel 40:15

  And from the front of the gate of entrance to the front of the portico of the inner gate, fifty cubits.

• Ezekiel 40:19

  And he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the inner court outside, a hundred cubits, on the east and the north.

• Ezekiel 40:23

  And there was a gate to the inner court opposite the gate to the north and to the east; and he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.

• Ezekiel 40:27

  And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.

• Ezekiel 40:28

  And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate, and he measured the south gate according to these measures.

• Ezekiel 40:32

  And he brought me into the inner court toward the east, and he measured the gate according to these measures.

• Ezekiel 40:44

  And outside the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was beside the side of the north gate, with their front toward the south, one beside the side of the east gate, facing toward the north.

• Ezekiel 41:15

  And he measured the length of the building in front of the separate area that was at its back, and its terraces on this side and on that side, a hundred cubits; and the inner temple and the porticoes of the court;

• Ezekiel 41:17

  to the space above the entrance, and as far as the inner house, and outside, and on all the wall all around, inside and outside, by measures.

• Ezekiel 42:3

  Opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court, terrace facing terrace in three stories.

• Ezekiel 42:4

  And in front of the chambers was a corridor ten cubits wide, toward the inside, a way of one cubit; and their entrances were toward the north.

• Ezekiel 42:15

  And he finished the measurements of the inner house, and he brought me out by the way of the gate that faced toward the east, and he measured it all around.

• Ezekiel 43:5

  And a spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and look, the glory of YHWH filled the house.

• Ezekiel 44:17

  And it shall be, when they enter the gates of the inner court, linen garments they shall put on, and no wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court and inside.

• Ezekiel 44:21

  And no priest shall drink wine when they enter the inner court.

• Ezekiel 44:27

  And on the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall present his sin offering, declares Adonai YHWH.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 46:1

  “Thus says Adonai YHWH: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut the six days of work, but on the day of the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

And 3 more times.