Word study
Corner
9 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: corners, corner. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “corner” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- פִּנָּה pinnâhcornertranslated this way 21 times of its 27 uses · Strong’s H6438Noun · Translated: corner 12, corners 6, cornerstone 3, leaders 2Full study and all 27 verses →
Exodus 27:2 Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.
1 Kings 7:34 Each stand had four handles, one for each corner, projecting from the stand.
- קָצָה qâtsâhendtranslated this way 10 times of its 30 uses · Strong’s H7098Noun · Translated: corners 10, ends 9, end 4, other 2Full study and all 29 verses →
Exodus 27:4 Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.
Jeremiah 49:36 I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
- כָּנָף kânâphwing, extremitytranslated this way 8 times of its 96 uses · Strong’s H3671Noun · Translated: wings 53, wing 12, corners 4, corner 3Full study and all 79 verses →
Numbers 15:38 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.
Deuteronomy 22:12 You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
- מַקְצוֹעַ maqtsôaplace of corner-structure, (inner) corner-buttresstranslated this way 6 times of its 11 uses · Strong’s H4740Noun · Translated: corners 6, angle 3, angle in the wall 1, near the angle 1Full study and all 10 verses →
Exodus 26:24 coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners.
Ezekiel 41:22 There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
- פֵּאָה pêâhcorner, sidetranslated this way 5 times of its 57 uses · Strong’s H6285Noun · Translated: side 34, boundary 4, corners 3, edges 3Full study and all 46 verses →
Exodus 25:26 Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners at its four legs.
Nehemiah 9:22 You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
- מְקֻצְעָה mequtsâhangletranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H4742Noun · Translated: corners 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Exodus 26:23 and two frames for the two back corners of the tabernacle,
Exodus 36:28 and two frames for the two back corners of the tabernacle,
- זָוִית zâvîthcornertranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H2106Noun · Translated: like corner pillars 1, like the corners 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Psalm 144:12 Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Zechariah 9:15 The LORD of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners of the altar.
- קֶדֶם qedemfront, east, aforetimetranslated this way 2 times of its 85 uses · Strong’s H6924Noun · Translated: east 35, old 13, eastern 5, east side 4Full study and all 82 verses →
1 Kings 7:39 He set five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north, and he put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.
2 Chronicles 4:10 He put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.
- רֹאשׁ rôshheadtranslated this way 2 times of its 570 uses · Strong’s H7218Noun · Translated: head 200, heads 113, chief 31, top 29Full study and all 530 verses →
Greek words (New Testament)
- γωνία gōníaa corner, a secret placetranslated this way 4 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s G1137Noun · Translated: corners 3, cornerstone 3, corner 1Full study and all 7 verses →
Matthew 6:5 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
Acts 26:26 For the king knows about these matters, and I can speak freely to him. I am confident that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner.
- ἀρχή archḗruler, beginningtranslated this way 2 times of its 55 uses · Strong’s G746Noun · Translated: beginning 31, rulers 5, first 3, rule 2Full study and all 55 verses →
Acts 10:11 He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
Acts 11:5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.