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Peninnah (Also known as Penina) is a Biblical person, mentioned in 1 Samuel 1:2. She is one of the two wives of Elkanah (the other being Hannah, who is also called Chana). Its Hebrew root word perhaps is contr, meaning precious stone. "Peninnah" bore children to Elkanah , but she brought grief and disharmony to the household by her insolent mocking of barren Hannah. This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.” I Samuel 1:5,6. Many commentators explain that Peninnah's actions were in fact noble. They explain Peninnah "mocked" the barren Hannah in order to further drive Hannah to pray even harder to God to give her children. Gifts from Elkanah could not compensate Hannah for her barrenness, but these gifts further incited the jealousy of Peninnah. Peninnah seemed to give no consideration to what the Word of God revealed - “the Lord who closed her [Hannah’s] womb” (I Samuel 1:5). When in answer to her desperate, weeping prayer Hannah’s womb was opened, she bore three sons and two daughters (I Samuel 2:21). The petty Peninnah faded from Scripture. Her name presented her as a treasure, a pearl, but it was in name only.1
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Peninnah (right) with Elkanah and Hannah as they return to Ramah .Peninnah ( Pəninnāh ; sometimes transliterated Penina ) was one of Elkanah 's two wives, briefly mentioned in the first Book of Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1:2).Her name may derive from פְּנִינִים ( pənînîm ) meaning "pearl", "jewel" or "coral".
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Peninnah (right) with Elkanah and Hannah as they return to Ramah . Peninnah ( Pəninnāh ; sometimes transliterated Penina ) was one of Elkanah 's two wives, briefly mentioned in the first Book of Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1:2). Her name may derive from ( pəninnāh ), meaning "coral".Hackett, 1877, Volume III , entry for "Peninnah."
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Peninnah (right) with Elkanah and Hannah as they return to Ramah . Peninnah ( Pəninnā ; sometimes transliterated Penina ) was one of Elkanah 's two wives, briefly mentioned in the first Book of Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1:2). An English-Hebrew lexicon, being a complete verbal index to Gesenius' Hebrew lexicon .Robarts - University of Toronto.
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Woman in the Hebrew or Christian Bible For the name, see Pnina . Peninnah (right) with Elkanah and Hannah as they return to Ramah . Peninnah ( Hebrew : פְּנִנָּה Pəninnā ; sometimes transliterated Penina ) was one of Elkanah 's two wives, briefly mentioned in the first Book of Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1:2). An English-Hebrew lexicon, being a complete verbal index to Gesenius' Hebrew lexicon . Robarts - University of Toronto.
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