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Hebrew verb · H6437

פָּנָה

panahpaw-naw'

to turn

135 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: pânâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6437is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 25 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 102
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6437

to turn; by implication, to face, i.e. appear, look, etc.

The King James renders it: appear, at (even-) tide, behold, cast out, come on, [idiom] corner, dawning, empty, go away, lie, look, mark, pass away, prepare, regard, (have) respect (to), (re-) turn (aside, away, back, face, self), [idiom] right (early).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

panah is rendered "to turn". It stands 135 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-five books.

  • Sixteen of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:22And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.
  • The Greek text spells it 102 different ways.

The first use

And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

Genesis 18:22וַיִּפְנ֤וּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he turned15
  • and they turned12
  • turn12
  • turning11
  • which faces7
  • to turning of5
  • you turn5
  • and I turned4
  • and you will turn4
  • it turned4
  • and we turned3
  • it has turned3

and 41 more, 135 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

פָּנִיםpanimface: beforeUses2,123
פָּנִיןpaninjewelUses6
פָּנַקpanaqto pamperUses1

The words it stands beside

All 135, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

102 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַיִּ֤פֶן5
  • וַיִּ֣פֶן4
  • וַיִּפְנוּ֙4
  • פֹּנִ֣ים4
  • הַפּוֹנֶ֣ה3
  • וַיִּפְנ֞וּ3
  • הַפֹּנֶ֣ה2
  • וָאֵ֗פֶן2
  • וַיִּ֥פֶן2
  • וַיִּ֖פֶן2
  • וַיִּפְנ֖וּ2
  • וַיִּפְנ֣וּ2

and 90 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3ms15Hc/Vqw3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3mp13Hc/Vqw3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural9HVqrmpa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular8HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural8HVqv2mp
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular7HTd/Vqrmsa
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)6HR/Vqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVqp3ms
  • Hc/Vqq1cs4Hc/Vqq1cs
  • Hc/Vqq2ms4Hc/Vqq2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular4HVqv2ms
  • Hc/Vqw1cp3Hc/Vqw1cp

Genesis

four uses
  • And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

    Genesis 18:22

    • וַיִּפְנ֤וּvaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned away
  • “Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

    Genesis 24:31

    • פִּנִּ֣יתִיpinitiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have made clear
  • Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so that I may go elsewhere.”

    Genesis 24:49

    • וְאֶפְנֶ֥הveefnehHC/Vqu1cstagged: so I may turn
  • Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.

    Genesis 24:63

    • לִפְנ֣וֹתlifnotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to turning of

Exodus

six uses
  • After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

    Exodus 2:12

    • וַיִּ֤פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned
  • Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.

    Exodus 7:23

    • וַיִּ֣פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned
  • They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and every Egyptian—something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they came into this land.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.

    Exodus 10:6

    • וַיִּ֥פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned
  • So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.

    Exodus 14:27

    • לִפְנ֥וֹתlifnotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to turning of
  • And as Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared.

    Exodus 16:10

    • וַיִּפְנ֖וּvaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned
  • Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

    Exodus 32:15

    • וַיִּ֜פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned

Leviticus

five uses
  • The priest must order that the house be cleared before he enters it to examine the mildew, so that nothing in the house will become unclean. After this, the priest shall go in to inspect the house.

    Leviticus 14:36

    • וּפִנּ֣וּufinuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and people will make clear
  • Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:4

    • תִּפְנוּ֙tifnuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you turn
  • You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:31

    • תִּפְנ֤וּtifnuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you turn
  • Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.

    Leviticus 20:6

    • תִּפְנֶ֤הtifnehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will turn
  • I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

    Leviticus 26:9

    • וּפָנִ֣יתִיufanitiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will turn

Numbers

five uses
  • As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,

    Numbers 12:10

    • וַיִּ֧פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned
  • Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

    Numbers 14:25

    • פְּנ֨וּpenuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: turn
  • Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”

    Numbers 16:15

    • תֵּ֖פֶןtefenverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you turn
  • But when the congregation gathered against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the Tent of Meeting, and suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.

    Numbers 16:42

    • וַיִּפְנוּ֙vaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned
  • Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.

    Numbers 21:33

    • וַיִּפְנוּ֙vaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned

Deuteronomy

sixteen uses
  • Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.

    Deuteronomy 1:7

    • פְּנ֣וּ׀penuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: turn
  • They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.

    Deuteronomy 1:24

    • וַיִּפְנוּ֙vaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned
  • But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

    Deuteronomy 1:40

    • פְּנ֣וּpenuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: turn
  • Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.

    Deuteronomy 2:1

    • וַנֵּ֜פֶןvanefenHc/Vqw1cptagged: and we turned
  • “You have been wandering around this hill country long enough; turn to the north

    Deuteronomy 2:3

    • פְּנ֥וּpenuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: turn
  • So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.

    Deuteronomy 2:8

    • וַנֵּ֙פֶן֙vanefenHc/Vqw1cptagged: and we turned
  • Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

    Deuteronomy 3:1

    • וַנֵּ֣פֶןvanefenHc/Vqw1cptagged: and we turned
  • So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

    Deuteronomy 9:15

    • וָאֵ֗פֶןvaefenHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I turned
  • Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

    Deuteronomy 9:27

    • תֵּ֗פֶןtefenverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you turn
  • and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.

    Deuteronomy 10:5

    • וָאֵ֗פֶןvaefenHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I turned
  • And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.

    Deuteronomy 16:7

    • וּפָנִ֣יתָufanitaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will turn
  • When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.

    Deuteronomy 23:11

    • לִפְנֽוֹת־lifnot-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to turning of
  • Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

    Deuteronomy 29:18

    • פֹנֶ֤הfonehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: turning away
  • But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

    Deuteronomy 30:17

    • יִפְנֶ֥הyifnehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will turn away
  • And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

    Deuteronomy 31:18

    • פָנָ֔הfanahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has turned
  • When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

    Deuteronomy 31:20

    • וּפָנָ֞הufanahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will turn

Joshua

five uses
  • This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.

    Joshua 7:12

    • יִפְנוּ֙yifnuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they turn
  • When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

    Joshua 8:20

    • וַיִּפְנ֣וּvaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned
  • Their southern border started at the bay on the southern tip of the Salt Sea,

    Joshua 15:2

    • הַפֹּנֶ֥הhaponehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which faces
  • Then the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, turning north to Gilgal, which faces the Ascent of Adummim south of the ravine. It continued along the waters of En-shemesh and came out at En-rogel.

    Joshua 15:7

    • פֹּנֶ֣הponehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: turning
  • And now that the LORD your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them, you may return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you across the Jordan.

    Joshua 22:4

    • פְּנוּ֩penuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: turn

Judges

nine uses
  • The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”

    Judges 6:14

    • וַיִּ֤פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned
  • Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.

    Judges 15:4

    • וַיֶּ֤פֶןvaiyefenHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he turned
  • Putting their small children, their livestock, and their possessions in front of them, they turned and departed.

    Judges 18:21

    • וַיִּפְנ֖וּvaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned
  • So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.

    Judges 18:26

    • וַיִּ֖פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned
  • Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.

    Judges 19:26

    • לִפְנ֣וֹתlifnotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to turning of
  • But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.

    Judges 20:40

    • וַיִּ֤פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it turned
  • So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.

    Judges 20:42

    • וַיִּפְנ֞וּvaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned
  • Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.

    Judges 20:45

    • וַיִּפְנ֞וּvaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned
  • But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

    Judges 20:47

    • וַיִּפְנ֞וּvaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned

1 Samuel

five uses
  • As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all the signs came to pass that day.

    1 Samuel 10:9

    • כְּהַפְנֹת֤וֹkehafnotopreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when turned he
  • And raiders went out of the Philistine camp in three divisions. One headed toward Ophrah in the land of Shual,

    1 Samuel 13:17

    • יִפְנֶ֛הyifnehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it turned
  • another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.

    1 Samuel 13:18

    • יִפְנֶ֔הyifnehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it turned
    • יִפְנֶה֙yifnehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it turned
  • After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed them.

    1 Samuel 14:47

    • יִפְנֶ֖הyifnehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he turned

2 Samuel

three uses
  • When he turned around and saw me, he called out and I answered, ‘Here I am!’

    2 Samuel 1:7

    • וַיִּ֥פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned
  • And Abner glanced back and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” “It is,” Asahel replied.

    2 Samuel 2:20

    • וַיִּ֤פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned
  • Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”

    2 Samuel 9:8

    • פָנִ֔יתָfanitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have turned

1 Kings

eight uses
  • And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,

    1 Kings 2:3

    • תִּפְנֶ֖הtifnehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will turn
  • The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.

    1 Kings 7:25

    • פֹנִ֣ים׀fonimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: turning
    • פֹנִ֨ים׀fonimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: turning
    • פֹּנִ֣יםponimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: turning
    • פֹּנִ֣יםponimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: turning
  • 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.

    1 Kings 8:28

    • וּפָנִ֜יתָufanitaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will turn
  • King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired—whatever she asked—besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned to her own country, along with her servants.

    1 Kings 10:13

    • וַתֵּ֛פֶןvatefenHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she turned
  • “Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.

    1 Kings 17:3

    • וּפָנִ֥יתָufanitaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will turn

2 Kings

four uses
  • Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

    2 Kings 2:24

    • וַיִּ֤פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned
  • Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

    2 Kings 5:12

    • וַיִּ֖פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned
  • But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.

    2 Kings 13:23

    • וַיִּ֣פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned
  • And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.

    2 Kings 23:16

    • וַיִּ֣פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned

2 Chronicles

nine uses
  • The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.

    2 Chronicles 4:4

    • פֹנִ֣ים׀fonimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: turning
    • פֹנִ֨ים׀fonimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: turning
    • פֹּנִ֣יםponimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: turning
    • פֹּנִ֣יםponimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: turning
  • 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.

    2 Chronicles 6:19

    • וּפָנִ֜יתָufanitaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will turn
  • When Judah turned and discovered that the battle was both before and behind them, they cried out to the LORD. Then the priests blew the trumpets,

    2 Chronicles 13:14

    • וַיִּפְנ֣וּvaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned
  • When the men of Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the vast army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; no one had escaped.

    2 Chronicles 20:24

    • וַיִּפְנוּ֙vaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned
  • There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.

    2 Chronicles 25:23

    • הַפּוֹנֶ֔הhaponehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Corner
  • When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him and saw his leprous forehead, they rushed him out. Indeed, he himself hurried to get out, because the LORD had afflicted him.

    2 Chronicles 26:20

    • וַיִּ֣פֶןvaiyifenHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned

Job

five uses
  • “Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

    Job 5:1

    • תִּפְנֶֽה׃tifnehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you turn
  • But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?

    Job 6:28

    • פְנוּ־fenu-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: turn
  • Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

    Job 21:5

    • פְּנוּ־penu-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: turn
  • They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

    Job 24:18

    • יִ֝פְנֶהyifnehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: anyone turns
  • Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

    Job 36:21

    • תֵּ֣פֶןtefenverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you turn

Psalms

nine uses
  • Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

    Psalms 25:16

    • פְּנֵה־peneh-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: turn
  • Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

    Psalms 40:4

    • פָנָ֥הfanahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has turned
  • God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.

    Psalms 46:5

    • לִפְנ֥וֹתlifnotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to turning of
  • Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

    Psalms 69:16

    • פְּנֵ֣הpenehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: turn
  • You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.

    Psalms 80:9

    • פִּנִּ֥יתָpinitaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you made clear
  • Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.

    Psalms 86:16

    • פְּנֵ֥הpenehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: turn
  • For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

    Psalms 90:9

    • פָּנ֣וּpanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they turn
  • He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.

    Psalms 102:17

    • פָּ֭נָהpanahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has turned
  • Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.

    Psalms 119:132

    • פְּנֵה־peneh-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: turn

Proverbs

one use
  • A bribe is a charm to its giver; wherever he turns, he succeeds.

    Proverbs 17:8

    • יִפְנֶ֣הyifnehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he turns

Ecclesiastes

two uses
  • Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

    Ecclesiastes 2:11

    • וּפָנִ֣יתִֽיufanitiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I turned
  • Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?

    Ecclesiastes 2:12

    • וּפָנִ֤יתִֽיufanitiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I turned

Song of Solomon

one use
  • Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.

    Song of Solomon 6:1

    • פָּנָ֣הpanahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has he turned

Isaiah

eight uses
  • They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

    Isaiah 8:21

    • וּפָנָ֥הufanahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will turn
  • Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

    Isaiah 13:14

    • יִפְנ֔וּyifnuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will turn
  • A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

    Isaiah 40:3

    • פַּנּ֖וּpanuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: make clear
  • Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

    Isaiah 45:22

    • פְּנוּ־penu-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: turn
  • We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

    Isaiah 53:6

    • פָּנִ֑ינוּpaninuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have turned
  • Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:

    Isaiah 56:11

    • פָּנ֔וּpanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have turned
  • And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”

    Isaiah 57:14

    • פַּנּוּ־panu-verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: make clear
  • Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!

    Isaiah 62:10

    • פַּנּ֖וּpanuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: make clear

Jeremiah

ten uses
  • say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’

    Jeremiah 2:27

    • פָנ֥וּfanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have turned
  • ‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.

    Jeremiah 6:4

    • פָנָ֣הfanahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has turned
  • They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

    Jeremiah 32:33

    • וַיִּפְנ֥וּvaiyifnuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned
  • Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 46:5

    • הִפְנ֑וּhifnuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will turn back
  • Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them—the time of their punishment.

    Jeremiah 46:21

    • הִפְנ֛וּhifnuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will turn
  • at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.

    Jeremiah 47:3

    • הִפְנ֤וּhifnuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have turned back
  • “How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”

    Jeremiah 48:39

    • הִפְנָה־hifnah-verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has turned
  • Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.

    Jeremiah 49:8

    • הָפְנוּ֙hafenuverb · causative passive (hophal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: be turned back
  • Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee. Panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her like a woman in labor.

    Jeremiah 49:24

    • הִפְנְתָ֥הhifnetahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will turn back
  • 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.

    Jeremiah 50:16

    • יִפְנ֔וּyifnuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will turn

Ezekiel

fourteen uses
  • He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.

    Ezekiel 8:3

    • הַפּוֹנֶ֣הhaponehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which faces
  • And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate, which faces north, each with a weapon of slaughter in his hand. With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze altar.

    Ezekiel 9:2

    • מָפְנֶ֣הmafenehverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: faced
  • When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. For wherever the head faced, the cherubim would go in that direction, without turning as they moved.

    Ezekiel 10:11

    • יִפְנֶ֤הyifnehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it turned
  • Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.

    Ezekiel 11:1

    • הַפּוֹנֶ֣הhaponehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which faces
  • It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.

    Ezekiel 17:6

    • לִפְנ֤וֹתlifnotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to turn
  • Egypt will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity in turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”

    Ezekiel 29:16

    • בִּפְנוֹתָ֖םbifnotampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: when turned they
  • For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

    Ezekiel 36:9

    • וּפָנִ֣יתִיufanitiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will turn
  • Then the man brought me back to the gate that faces east,

    Ezekiel 43:1

    • פֹּנֶ֖הponehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: facing
  • The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”

    Ezekiel 43:17

    • פְּנ֥וֹתpenotverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to face
  • The man then brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary that faced east, but it was shut.

    Ezekiel 44:1

    • הַפֹּנֶ֖הhaponehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which faces
  • “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.

    Ezekiel 46:1

    • הַפֹּנֶ֣הhaponehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which faces
  • When the prince makes a freewill offering to the LORD, whether a burnt offering or a peace offering, the gate facing east must be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or peace offering just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate must be closed after he goes out.

    Ezekiel 46:12

    • הַפֹּנֶ֣הhaponehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which faces
  • Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the far western end

    Ezekiel 46:19

    • הַפֹּנ֖וֹתhaponotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: which were facing
  • Next he brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and there I saw the water trickling out from the south side.

    Ezekiel 47:2

    • הַפּוֹנֶ֣הhaponehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which faces

Hosea

one use
  • Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and offer raisin cakes to idols.”

    Hosea 3:1

    • פֹּנִים֙ponimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: turning

Nahum

one use
  • Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.

    Nahum 2:8

    • מַפְנֶֽה׃mafnehverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: turns back

Zephaniah

one use
  • The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.

    Zephaniah 3:15

    • פִּנָּ֖הpinahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has cleared away

Haggai

one use
  • You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

    Haggai 1:9

    • פָּנֹ֤הpanohverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: you turned to look

Malachi

two uses
  • And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.

    Malachi 2:13

    • פְּנוֹת֙penotverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: turning
  • “Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.

    Malachi 3:1

    • וּפִנָּה־ufinah-Hc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make clear

The letters

Gematria 135

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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