Bible Names

Peninnah: meaning of the name

Peninnah means “pearl; precious stone; the face.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Peninnah in Hebrew and Greek

פְּנִנָּה H6444

Pᵉninnâh (pen-in-naw') — Peninnah, an Israelitess

probably feminine from H6443 (פָּנִין) contr.;

Who named Peninnah in the Bible

Peninnah in Scripture

“Peninnah” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Samuel 1:2

    And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

  • 1 Samuel 1:4

    And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: