פִּנָּה
pin.nah
corner
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# פִּנָּה (pinnah): The Biblical Corner The Hebrew word *pinnah* denotes a corner—a physical angle or projecting point where two surfaces or boundaries meet. Based on its 26 occurrences throughout the biblical text, the term applies to concrete architectural and geographical features rather than abstract concepts. This straightforward spatial reference appears frequently enough in scripture to indicate that corners held practical importance in the material world the biblical writers inhabited and described. The consistency of occurrences across the Bible suggests that *pinnah* functioned as a standard term for identifying specific locations or structural elements. Corners appear in various contexts—whether describing buildings, fortifications, or geographical landmarks—making the word a reliable descriptor for spatial orientation. The relatively modest frequency of 26 uses indicates this was a common but not dominant vocabulary item, employed when precision about location or structure mattered to the biblical narrative. Understanding *pinnah* as simply "corner" demonstrates how biblical Hebrew uses concrete spatial language to communicate meaning. Without additional context from specific passages, the lexical data reveals only the basic denotation, but this foundational meaning would have resonated clearly with ancient readers familiar with the built environment and landscape features the term marked.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
26 total occurrences across the text
In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
2 Chronicles 28:24Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, and cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of Yahweh’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 3:24After him, Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another portion, from the house of Azariah to the turning of the wall, and to the corner.
Nehemiah 3:31After him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths to the house of the temple servants, and of the merchants, made repairs opposite the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.
Nehemiah 3:32Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.
Job 1:19and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 38:6What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
Psalms 118:22The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
Proverbs 7:8passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
Proverbs 7:12Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
Proverbs 21:9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 25:24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Isaiah 19:13The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.
Isaiah 28:16Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
Jeremiah 31:40The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”
Jeremiah 51:26They won’t take a cornerstone from you, nor a stone for foundations; but you will be desolate forever,” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 43:20You shall take of its blood, and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. You shall cleanse it and make atonement for it that way.
Zephaniah 1:16a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
Zephaniah 3:6I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
Zechariah 10:4From him will come the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.
Ezekiel 45:19The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.
Exodus 27:2You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
Exodus 38:2He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
Judges 20:2The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
1 Samuel 14:38Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been today.
1 Kings 7:34There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself.