Lexical Summary pen: corner Original Word: פֵןTransliteration: pen Phonetic Spelling: (pane) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: corner Meaning: an angle Strong's Concordance corner From an unused root meaning to turn; an angle (of a street or wall) -- corner. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6434. pen מִּנָּה28 noun feminine corner; — absolute ׳פ 2 Kings 14:13 +, construct מִּנַּת Jeremiah 31:40 +; suffix מִּנָּתָהּ Job 38:9, מִּנָּהּ Proverbs 7:8 (Ges§ 91e); plural מִּנּוֺת absolute Zephaniah 1:16; 2 Chronicles 26:15, מִּנִּים Zechariah 14:10; construct מִּנּוֺת 1 Kings 7:34 +, etc.; — 1. a. corner, of square objects 1 Kings 7:34 + 7:30 (read מִּנּוֺתָיו for מַּעֲמֹתָיו, compare Kit), Exodus 27:2; 38:2; Ezekiel 43:19; of house Job 1:19, roof Proverbs 7:12; 21:9 = 25:24; לְפ ׳אֶבֶן Jeremiah 51:26 i.e. a corner-stone; פ ׳אֶבֶן of earth Job 38:9; compare (figurative) Psalm 118:22, and (אבן omitted) Isaiah 28:16; ׳פ = street-corner2 Chronicles 28:24. b. specifically of wall of Jerusalem, Nehemiah 3:24 (in southeast), 3:31; 3:32 (northeast); הַמּ ׳שַׁעַד 2 Kings 14:13 + "" 2 Chronicles 25:23 ᵑ7 ᵑ6 ᵐ5 and most (for ׳שׁ הַמּוֺנֶה ᵑ0), + (see שַׁעַר); apparently with battlements 26:15; of cities in General ׳הַמּ הַנְּבֹהוֺת Zephaniah 1:16; of the nations 3:6. 2 figurative of chief, ruler as corner (support or defence), Judges 20:2; 1 Samuel 14:38; Isaiah 19:13 (read perhaps plural); Zechariah 10:4 (+יָתֵד q. v.). |
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