Bible Person
Meaning: pearl; precious stone; the face · Female · 2 cross references
Peninnah is Elkanah's other wife and the mother whose fertility becomes a source of pain for Hannah. She stands within the domestic tension that frames the birth story of Samuel. First appears in 1 Sam 1:2.1
AI summary: Peninnah matters because her cross references place her at the emotional center of Hannah's grief, where rivalry inside a household becomes part of the backdrop for one of Israel's most important answered prayers. The narrative does not flatten her into a symbol, but it does show how human provocation can drive deeper dependence on God. Taken together, the material presents Peninnah as a painful but important figure in the story that leads to Samuel's birth.1
Central Figure
Peninnah
Meaning: pearl; precious stone; the face
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.