Lexical Definition

‎פְּנִימָה‎ pᵉnîymâh (pen-ee'-maw) within ^H:Prep
from ‎פָּנִים‎ with directive enclitic

(with-) in(-ner part, -ward).

• faceward, i.e. indoors

1) toward the inside, within, faceward

See Greek: ἔσω · πρόσωπον

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎לִפְנִים‎ 1Kgs 6:29 see below ‎פָּנִי֫מָה‎.

‎פְּנִ֫ימָה‎ adverb (‎ה‎ locative)

1. towards the (in-)side.

2. within (literally faceward, from point of view of one entering by opposite door); — of a building, usually temple:

1. after verb of motion Lev 10:18; 2Chr 29:18, and (after ‎הִגִּיד‎) 2Kgs 7:11, also ‎׳‎‎לִפ‎ Ezek 41:3; 2Chr 29:16.

2. ‎׳‎‎פ‎ 1Kgs 6:18, also ‎׳‎‎לִפ‎ v1Kgs 6:30, so read also v1Kgs 6:29 (for ᵑ0 ‎מִלִּפְנִים‎, see Kmp^Kau Kit Benz), Ezek 40:16 (twice in verse), also Ps 45:14* ᵑ0, i.e. within the house, but Krochm Gr Che and others (plausibly) ‎פְּנִינִים‎, q. v.; ‎׳‎‎מִפּ‎ 1Kgs 6:19; 1Kgs 6:21.= 2Chr 3:4.

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