pe.ni.mi describes a court, house, gate, chamber, or sanctuary area situated farther within a larger complex.

The term consistently marks a location or structure as lying farther within a larger built complex: especially an inner court, but also an inner house, gate, chambers, doors, hall, and sanctuary area.

1. Situated farther within a built complex · dominant

   The adjective qualifies courts most often: in Ezekiel 40:28 the APB renders arrival at the "inner court" through its south gate, and in Ezekiel 44:17 it renders gates of that court as the setting for priestly entry and ministry. The same spatial relation marks the "inner house" in 1 Kings 6:27, the "inner gate" and "inner court" in Ezekiel 40:44, and the "inner sanctuary" in 2 Chronicles 4:22.

   Ezekiel 40:28Ezekiel 44:171 Kings 6:27Ezekiel 40:442 Chronicles 4:22Esther 5:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly renders the spatial designation with "inner," including "inner court," "inner house," "inner gate," and "inner sanctuary." Those renderings confirm the clauses' interior spatial contrast rather than supply a separate definition.