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HebrewH6440Noun (Masculine)

פָּנֶה

pa.neh

1,740Occurrences
H6440Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)

plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun פָּנֶה; from H6437 (פָּנָה));

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
before/to/front 1) face 1a) face, faces 1b) presence, person 1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim) 1d) face (of animals) 1e) face, surface (of ground) 1f) as adv of loc/temp 1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before 1g) with prep 1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

פָּנֶה appears 1,740 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezk
125
Genesis
120
Deuteronomy
111
Exodus
110
Jeremiah
108
2 Chronicles
99
Leviticus
91
1 Kings
88

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:43BSB

These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah.

2 Kings 19:15BSB

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD:“O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Exodus 28:29BSB

Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder before the LORD.

Isaiah 2:21BSB

They will flee to caverns in the rocksand crevices in the cliffs,away from the terror of the LORDand from the splendor of His majesty,when He rises to shake the earth.

Joshua 7:10BSB

But the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.