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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. Ezra 9:15לְפָנֶ֖יךָ · 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.”
  2. Ezra 10:1לִפְנֵ֖י · before
    While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.
  3. Ezra 10:6מִלִּפְנֵי֙ · from before
    Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
  4. Nehemiah 1:4לִפְנֵ֖י · before
    When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
  5. Nehemiah 1:6לְפָנֶ֤יךָ · before You
    …let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.
  6. Nehemiah 1:11לִפְנֵ֖י · in the sight
    O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)
  7. Nehemiah 2:1לְפָנָ֑יו · was set before him; לְפָנָֽיו׃ · in his presence
    Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,
  8. Nehemiah 2:2פָּנֶ֣יךָ · your face
    …so the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This could only be sadness of the heart.” I was overwhelmed with fear
  9. Nehemiah 2:3פָנַ֗י
    …and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
  10. Nehemiah 2:5לְפָנֶ֑יךָ · in your sight
    …and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”
  11. Nehemiah 2:6לִפְנֵֽי־
    Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.
  12. Nehemiah 2:13פְּנֵי֙
    So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.
  13. Nehemiah 4:2לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    …before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
  14. Nehemiah 4:5מִלְּפָנֶ֣יךָ · from Your sight
    Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
  15. Nehemiah 4:9מִפְּנֵיהֶֽם׃
    So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
  16. Nehemiah 4:14מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם · of them
    After I had made an inspection, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
  17. Nehemiah 5:15לְפָנַ֜י · before me; מִפְּנֵ֖י · because
    The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.
  18. Nehemiah 6:19לְפָנַ֔י · to me
    Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiah’s good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.
  19. Nehemiah 8:1לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
  20. Nehemiah 8:2לִפְנֵ֤י · before
    On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could listen and understand.
  21. Nehemiah 8:3לִפְנֵ֨י · as he faced; לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
  22. Nehemiah 9:8לְפָנֶיךָ֒ · before You
    You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
  23. Nehemiah 9:11לִפְנֵיהֶ֔ם · before them
    You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
  24. Nehemiah 9:24לִפְנֵיהֶ֜ם · before them
    So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.
  25. Nehemiah 9:28לְפָנֶ֑יךָ · in Your sight
    But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion.
  26. Nehemiah 9:32לְפָנֶ֡יךָ
    So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
  27. Nehemiah 9:35לִפְנֵיהֶ֖ם · before them
    For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.
  28. Nehemiah 12:36לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃ · led the procession
    …and his associates—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani—with the musical instruments prescribed by David the man of God. Ezra the scribe led the procession.
  29. Nehemiah 13:4וְלִפְנֵ֣י · Now before
    Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God
  30. Nehemiah 13:5לְפָנִ֟ים · they had previously
    …and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.
  31. Nehemiah 13:19לִפְנֵ֣י · just before
    When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.
  32. Esther 1:3לְפָנָֽיו׃ · [were there]
    In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.
  33. Esther 1:10פְּנֵ֖י
    On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas—
  34. Esther 1:11לִפְנֵ֥י · before
    …to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.
  35. Esther 1:13לִפְנֵ֕י · with
    Then the king consulted the wise men who knew the times, for it was customary for him to confer with the experts in law and justice.
  36. Esther 1:14פְּנֵ֣י
    His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.
  37. Esther 1:16לִפְנֵ֤י · And in the presence
    And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.
  38. Esther 1:17לְפָנָ֖יו · before him
    For the conduct of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes ordered Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she did not come.’
  39. Esther 1:19מִלְּפָנָ֔יו; לִפְנֵי֙ · the presence
    So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.
  40. Esther 2:9לְפָנָיו֒ · his
    And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.
  41. Esther 2:11לִפְנֵ֖י · in front
    And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther’s welfare and what was happening to her.
  42. Esther 2:17לְפָנָ֖יו · in his sight
    And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.
  43. Esther 2:23לִפְנֵ֥י · in the presence
    After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.
  44. Esther 3:7לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
  45. Esther 4:2לִפְנֵ֣י
    But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.
  46. Esther 4:5לְפָנֶ֔יהָ · to her
    Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to her, and she dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what was troubling him and why.