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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. Jeremiah 33:5פָנַי֙ · My face
    The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.
  2. Jeremiah 33:18מִלְּפָנָ֑י · before Me
    …nor will the priests who are Levites ever fail to have a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present sacrifices.”
  3. Jeremiah 33:24לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃ס
    “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
  4. Jeremiah 34:5לְפָנֶ֗יךָ · you
    …you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ‘Alas, O master!’ For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”
  5. Jeremiah 34:15לְפָנַ֔י · before Me
    Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
  6. Jeremiah 34:18לְפָנָ֑י · before Me
    And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.
  7. Jeremiah 35:5לִפְנֵ֣י׀ · before
    Then I set pitchers full of wine and some cups before the men of the house of the Rechabites, and I said to them, “Drink some wine.”
  8. Jeremiah 35:7פְּנֵ֣י
    Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
  9. Jeremiah 35:11מִפְּנֵי֙ · to escape; וּמִפְּנֵ֖י
    So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”
  10. Jeremiah 35:19לְפָנַ֖י · before Me
    …this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to stand before Me.’”
  11. Jeremiah 36:7לִפְנֵ֣י · before
    Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way; for great are the anger and fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”
  12. Jeremiah 36:9לִפְנֵ֧י · before
    Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.
  13. Jeremiah 36:22לְפָנָ֥יו · before him
    Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.
  14. Jeremiah 37:11מִפְּנֵ֖י · for fear
    When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
  15. Jeremiah 37:20לְפָנֶ֔יךָ · before you
    But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”
  16. Jeremiah 38:9מִפְּנֵ֣י
    “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
  17. Jeremiah 38:26לִפְנֵ֣י · to
    …then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”
  18. Jeremiah 39:16לְפָנֶ֖יךָ · before your eyes
    “Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good, and on that day they will be fulfilled before your eyes.
  19. Jeremiah 39:17מִפְּנֵיהֶֽם׃
    But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you will not be delivered into the hands of the men whom you fear.
  20. Jeremiah 40:4לְפָנֶ֔יךָ · is before you
    But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”
  21. Jeremiah 40:10לִפְנֵ֣י · you before
    As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”
  22. Jeremiah 41:9מִפְּנֵ֖י · for fear
    Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.
  23. Jeremiah 41:15מִפְּנֵ֖י · from
    But Ishmael son of Nethaniah and eight of his men escaped from Johanan and went to the Ammonites.
  24. Jeremiah 41:18מִפְּנֵי֙ · to escape; מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם · of [the Chaldeans]
    …to escape the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of the Chaldeans because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
  25. Jeremiah 42:2לְפָנֶ֔יךָ · before you
    Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire remnant. For few of us remain of the many, as you can see with your own eyes.
  26. Jeremiah 42:9לְפָנָֽיו׃
    Jeremiah told them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition:
  27. Jeremiah 42:11מִפְּנֵי֙ · of; מִפָּנָ֑יו
    Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear; do not be afraid of him, declares the LORD, for I am with you to save you and deliver you from him.
  28. Jeremiah 42:15פְּנֵיכֶם֙
    …then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and reside there,
  29. Jeremiah 42:17פְּנֵיהֶ֜ם; מִפְּנֵי֙
    So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’
  30. Jeremiah 44:3מִפְּנֵ֣י · because of
    …because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.
  31. Jeremiah 44:10לִפְנֵיכֶ֖ם · before you; וְלִפְנֵ֥י · and
    To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.
  32. Jeremiah 44:11פָּנַ֛י · My face
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.
  33. Jeremiah 44:12פְנֵיהֶ֜ם
    And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
  34. Jeremiah 44:22מִפְּנֵי֙; מִפְּנֵ֥י
    So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
  35. Jeremiah 44:23מִפְּנֵי֩ · Because
    Because you burned incense and sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has befallen you, as you see today.”
  36. Jeremiah 46:16מִפְּנֵ֖י · away from
    They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ‘Get up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.’
  37. Jeremiah 48:44מִפְּנֵ֤י
    “Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
  38. Jeremiah 49:5לְפָנָ֔יו · headlong
    Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.
  39. Jeremiah 49:19לְפָנָֽי׃ס · against Me
    Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
  40. Jeremiah 49:37לִפְנֵ֨י · before; וְלִפְנֵ֣י׀ · before
    So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.
  41. Jeremiah 50:5פְנֵיהֶ֑ם · [and turn] their faces
    They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
  42. Jeremiah 50:8לִפְנֵי־ · that lead
    Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.
  43. Jeremiah 50:16מִפְּנֵי֙ · In the face of
    Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.