pearl; precious stone; the face
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
PENINNAH.The second wife of Elkanah (1Sa_1:2 f.).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
One of Elkanah's two wives; bore children when Hannah was childless (1Sa_1:2; 1Sa_1:6-7). (See HANNAH.) As Hannah's "adversary," Peninnah "provoked her with provocation for to make her fret." As Elkanah from year to year gave Hannah a double portion at the sacrificial meal, "so did Peninnah provoke her so that she wept and did not eat." Elkanah's love to Hannah drew out Peninnah's renewed provocations.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Penin'nah. (coral or pearl). One of the two wives of Elkanah. 1Sa_1:2. (B.C. 1125).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
pḗ-nin?a (פּננּה, peninnāh, ?coral,? ?pearl?): Second wife of Elkanah, father of Samuel (1Sa_1:2, 1Sa_1:4).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Penin?nah (coral), one of the two wives of Elkanah, the father of Samuel (1Sa_1:2).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Peninnah
(Heb. Peninnah', פְּנַנָּה, coral; Sept. Φεννάνα), one of the two wives of Elkanab, the father of Samuel, of whom we only know that she bore children to her husband, and was not very generous in her bearing towards the other wife, Hannah (1Sa_1:2). B.C. cir. 1125.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.