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פָּנֶה

pa.nehface: beforeHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine2,128 occurrences38 books1,892 verses

Definition

plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun פָּנֶה; from H6437); 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.)
Traditional renderings: accept, a-(be-) fore(-time), against, anger, × as (long as), at, battle, because (of), beseech, countenance, edge, employ, endure, enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, × him(-self), honourable, impudent, in, it, look(-eth) (-s), × me, meet, × more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), × on, open, out of, over against, the partial, person, please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, regard, right forth, serve, × shewbread, sight, state, straight, street, × thee, × them(-selves), through ( -out), till, time(-s) past, (un-) to(-ward), upon, upside ( down), with(-in, -stand), × ye, × you.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders פָּנֶה:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

2,128 total
  1. 1 Kings 2:20פָּנָ֑י · me; פָּנָֽיִךְ׃ · you
    “I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”
  2. 1 Kings 2:26לִפְנֵי֙ · before
    Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”
  3. 1 Kings 2:45לִפְנֵ֥י · before
    But King Solomon will be blessed and David’s throne will remain secure before the LORD forever.”
  4. 1 Kings 3:6לְפָנֶ֜יךָ · before You
    Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
  5. 1 Kings 3:12לְפָנֶ֔יךָ
    …behold, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been another like you, nor will there ever be.
  6. 1 Kings 3:15לִפְנֵ֣י׀ · before
    Then Solomon awoke, and indeed it had been a dream. So he returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he held a feast for all his servants.
  7. 1 Kings 3:16לְפָנָֽיו׃ · before him
    At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
  8. 1 Kings 3:22לִפְנֵ֥י · before
    “No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.
  9. 1 Kings 3:24לִפְנֵ֥י
    The king continued, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought him a sword,
  10. 1 Kings 3:28מִפְּנֵ֣י · of
    When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
  11. 1 Kings 5:3מִפְּנֵ֥י · due to
    “As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.
  12. 1 Kings 6:3פְּנֵי֙ · the front; פְּנֵ֖י; פְּנֵ֥י · front
    The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.
  13. 1 Kings 6:17לִפְנָֽי׃ · in front of [this room]
    And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
  14. 1 Kings 6:20וְלִפְנֵ֣י · The inner
    The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
  15. 1 Kings 6:21לִפְנֵ֣י · across the front
    So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
  16. 1 Kings 6:29מִלִּפְנִ֖ים · in both the inner
    Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
  17. 1 Kings 7:6פְּנֵיהֶ֔ם; פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃ · [the portico]
    Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.
  18. 1 Kings 7:42פְּנֵ֥י · atop
    …the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars);
  19. 1 Kings 7:48הַפָּנִ֖ים · of the Presence
    Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
  20. 1 Kings 7:49לִפְנֵ֥י · in front
    …the lampstands of pure gold in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right side and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;
  21. 1 Kings 8:5לִפְנֵ֣י · There, before
    There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
  22. 1 Kings 8:8פְּנֵ֣י · front
    The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
  23. 1 Kings 8:11מִפְּנֵ֥י · because
    …so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud. For the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.
  24. 1 Kings 8:14פָּנָ֔יו
    And as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all
  25. 1 Kings 8:22לִפְנֵי֙ · before
    Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
  26. 1 Kings 8:23לְפָנֶ֖יךָ · before You
    …and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
  27. 1 Kings 8:25מִלְּפָנַ֔י · before Me; לְפָנַ֔י · before Me; לְפָנָֽי׃
    Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
  28. 1 Kings 8:28לְפָנֶ֖יךָ · before You
    Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.
  29. 1 Kings 8:31לִפְנֵ֥י · before
    When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,
  30. 1 Kings 8:33לִפְנֵ֥י · before
    When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,
  31. 1 Kings 8:40פְּנֵ֣י
    …so that they may fear You all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.
  32. 1 Kings 8:46לִפְנֵ֣י · to
    When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
  33. 1 Kings 8:50לִפְנֵ֥י · in the eyes
    May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all the transgressions they have committed against You, and may You grant them compassion in the eyes of their captors to show them mercy.
  34. 1 Kings 8:54מִלִּפְנֵ֨י · before
    Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
  35. 1 Kings 8:59לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,
  36. 1 Kings 8:62לִפְנֵ֥י · before
    Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.
  37. 1 Kings 8:64לִפְנֵ֣י · in front; לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
  38. 1 Kings 8:65לִפְנֵי֙ · before
    So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
  39. 1 Kings 9:3לְפָנַי֒ · before Me
    And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
  40. 1 Kings 9:4לְפָנַ֗י · before Me
    And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
  41. 1 Kings 9:6לִפְנֵיכֶ֑ם · before you
    But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
  42. 1 Kings 9:7פְּנֵ֤י; פָּנָ֑י · My presence
    …then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.