King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H6443
Transliteration: peninim
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-neen')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: corals
Meaning: a pearl
Word Summary
peninim: corals
Original Word: פָנִיןTransliteration: peninim
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-neen')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: corals
Meaning: a pearl
Strong's Concordance
ruby Or paniy {paw-nee'}; from the same as pen; probably a pearl (as round) -- ruby.
see HEBREW pen
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6443. peninim
מְּנִינִים noun [feminine] plural corals (? as branching compare Arabic branch of tree; so Mich Thes and others; > pearls BoHieroz. 601 DiJb after Ra and others); — ׳פ figurative of value Proverbs 20:15; usually ׳מִמּ, camp. Job 28:18; Proverbs 3:15 (Kt מפניים), 8:11; 31:10 (all of value), Lamentations 4:7 (of red colour); + Psalm 45:14 (perhaps; for מְּנִימָה, q. v. ).