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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. 2 Chronicles 20:18לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    Then Jehoshaphat bowed facedown, and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down before the LORD to worship Him.
  2. 2 Chronicles 20:21לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    Then Jehoshaphat consulted with the people and appointed those who would sing to the LORD and praise the splendor of His holiness. As they went out before the army, they were singing: “Give thanks to the LORD, for His loving devotion endures forever.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 22:11מִפְּנֵ֥י · from
    But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.
  4. 2 Chronicles 23:17לִפְנֵ֥י · in front of
    So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
  5. 2 Chronicles 24:14לִפְנֵי֩ · to
    When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made articles for the house of the LORD—utensils for the service and for the burnt offerings, dishes, and other objects of gold and silver. Throughout the days of Jehoiada, burnt offerings were presented regularly in the house of the LORD.
  6. 2 Chronicles 25:8לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”
  7. 2 Chronicles 25:14וְלִפְנֵיהֶ֥ם · before them
    When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his own gods, bowed before them, and burned sacrifices to them.
  8. 2 Chronicles 25:17פָנִֽים׃ · face to face
    Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent word to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.
  9. 2 Chronicles 25:21פָנִ֔ים · faced
    So Jehoash king of Israel advanced, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
  10. 2 Chronicles 25:22לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his own home.
  11. 2 Chronicles 26:19לִפְנֵ֤י · in their presence
    Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead.
  12. 2 Chronicles 27:6לִפְנֵ֖י · before
    So Jotham grew powerful because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.
  13. 2 Chronicles 28:3מִפְּנֵ֖י · before
    Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  14. 2 Chronicles 28:9לִפְנֵ֤י · to meet
    But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
  15. 2 Chronicles 28:14לִפְנֵ֥י · before
    So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the leaders and all the assembly.
  16. 2 Chronicles 29:6פְנֵיהֶ֛ם · turned their faces
    For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.
  17. 2 Chronicles 29:11לְפָנָיו֙ · before Him
    Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, to minister before Him, and to burn incense.”
  18. 2 Chronicles 29:19לִפְנֵ֖י · They are now in front
    Moreover, we have prepared and consecrated all the articles that King Ahaz in his unfaithfulness cast aside during his reign. They are now in front of the altar of the LORD.”
  19. 2 Chronicles 29:23לִפְנֵ֥י · before
    Then they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, who laid their hands on them.
  20. 2 Chronicles 30:9לִפְנֵ֣י · in the presence; פָּנִים֙ · turn His face
    For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”
  21. 2 Chronicles 31:20לִפְנֵ֖י · before
    So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.
  22. 2 Chronicles 32:2וּפָנָ֕יו
    When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come to make war against Jerusalem,
  23. 2 Chronicles 32:7מִפְּנֵי֙ · before; וּמִלִּפְנֵ֖י · [and]
    “Be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged before the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater One with us than with him.
  24. 2 Chronicles 32:12לִפְנֵ֨י · before
    Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?
  25. 2 Chronicles 32:21פָּנִ֜ים
    …and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
  26. 2 Chronicles 33:2מִפְּנֵ֖י · before
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  27. 2 Chronicles 33:9מִפְּנֵ֖י · before
    So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
  28. 2 Chronicles 33:12פְּנֵ֖י · the favor; מִלִּפְנֵ֖י · before
    And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
  29. 2 Chronicles 33:19לִפְנֵ֖י · before
    His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
  30. 2 Chronicles 33:23מִלִּפְנֵ֣י · before
    …but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
  31. 2 Chronicles 34:4לְפָנָ֗יו · Then in his presence; פְּנֵ֣י
    Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
  32. 2 Chronicles 34:18לִפְנֵ֥י · in the presence
    Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
  33. 2 Chronicles 34:24לִפְנֵ֖י · in the presence
    …that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah,
  34. 2 Chronicles 34:27מִלִּפְנֵ֣י · before; לְפָנַ֔י · before Me; לְפָנָ֑י · before Me
    …because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
  35. 2 Chronicles 34:31לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
  36. 2 Chronicles 35:22פָנָ֜יו
    Josiah, however, did not turn away from him; instead, in order to engage him in battle, he disguised himself. He did not listen to Neco’s words from the mouth of God, but went to fight him on the Plain of Megiddo.
  37. 2 Chronicles 36:12מִלִּפְנֵ֛י · before
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke for the LORD.
  38. Ezra 7:28לִפְנֵ֤י · before
    …and who has shown me favor before the king, his counselors, and all his powerful officials. And because the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, I took courage and gathered the leaders of Israel to return with me.
  39. Ezra 8:21לִפְנֵ֣י · ourselves before
    And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
  40. Ezra 8:29לִפְנֵי֩ · before
    Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”
  41. Ezra 9:6פָּנַ֖י · my face
    …and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
  42. Ezra 9:7פָּנִ֖ים
    From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and subjected to the sword and to captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.
  43. Ezra 9:9לִפְנֵי֩ · in the sight
    Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
  44. Ezra 9:15לְפָנֶ֙יךָ֙ · before You
    O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”