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Word Study · Strong's H6440 · Hebrew

פָּנִים

panim

paw-neem'

Strong's 1890 spelling: pânîym

the face (as the part that turns)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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.)

Rendered in the KJV as

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

  • 2,123
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 4 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 178
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 178

  • לִפְנֵ֣י55
  • לִפְנֵ֥י52
  • פְּנֵ֣י30
  • פְּנֵ֥י24
  • לִפְנֵ֖י12
  • פְּנֵ֖י10
  • לְפָנֶ֑יךָ8
  • מִפְּנֵ֖י8
  • מִפְּנֵ֥י8
  • מִלִּפְנֵ֣י7
  • מִפְּנֵ֣י7
  • לִפְנֵ֤י6

and 166 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 58

  • to before141
  • [the] face of43
  • to before you32
  • face your31
  • [the] surface of25
  • face his22
  • to before him22
  • face my20
  • from because of17
  • from before14
  • from to before12
  • to before me12

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 27

  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)178
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)76
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular39
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular37
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular31
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular28
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular22
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular15
  • preposition + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)12
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural11
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural10
  • noun · masculine plural6
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HR/Ncmpc · 178
  • HNcmpc · 76
  • HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 39
  • HR/Ncmpc/Sp2ms · 37
  • HR/Ncmpc/Sp3ms · 31
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 28
  • HNcmpc/Sp1bs · 22
  • HR/Ncmpc/Sp1bs · 15
  • HR/R/Ncmpc · 12
  • HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp · 11
  • HR/Ncmpc/Sp2mp · 10
  • HNcmpa · 6

The first 500 of 2,123, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis141 occurrences
Exodus128 occurrences
Leviticus102 occurrences
Psalms129 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).