Peninnah
thumb|220px|Peninnah (right) with Elkanah (husband of Hannah)|Elkanah and Hannah as they return to Ramah. Peninnah ( Pəninnā; sometimes transliterated Penina) was one of Elkanah's two wives, briefly mentioned in the first Book of Samuel (1 Samuel 1:2). Her name derives from the word (pəninā), meaning "pearl."
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thumb|220px|Peninnah (right) with Elkanah (husband of Hannah)|Elkanah and Hannah as they return to Ramah. Peninnah ( Pəninnā; sometimes transliterated Penina) was one of Elkanah's two wives, briefly mentioned in the first Book of Samuel (1 Samuel 1:2). Her name derives from the word (pəninā), meaning "pearl."
==Biblical account== Peninnah was less favored than Elkanah's other wife, Hannah; although she had borne him children whilst Hannah was childless, Peninnah also brought grief and disharmony to the household by her mocking of the infertile Hannah. Peninnah would taunt Hannah for being childless. Rabbinical tradition has it that she would grieve Hannah by means of ordinary everyday activities, taking pains to remind her, at all hours of the day, of the difference between them.