Pânîym — H6440

H6440 · Hebrew — פנים

Pronunciation: paw-neem'

Definition

masculine noun

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.)

  1. face
    1. face, faces
    2. presence, person
    3. face (of seraphim or cherubim)
    4. face (of animals)
    5. face, surface (of ground)
    6. as adv of loc/temp
      1. before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before
    7. with prep
      1. in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of

With a preposition, “the face of” forms a compound preposition, “before”, “in the presence of”; “from the face of” often means “because of” (Gen 27:46), and is sometimes kept literally: “she fled from her face” (Gen 16:6).

It can stand for the person himself: “thou shalt not respect the person of the poor” (Lev 19:15).

Usually translated as

face, presence, because, sight, from, countenance, fear of, of, by reason of, upon, for, open, person, against, forefront, over against, toward, shewbread, with, you, at, forepart, forward, unto, anger, in, meet, former time, front, looketh, looks, old, out of, time, past, to, upside, within, accept, as, battle, edge, employ, endure, form, heaviness, him, himself, impudent, look, me, more than, mouth, the partial, was purposed, regard, serve, state, street, themselves, till, withstand, a, fore, foretime, beseech, enquire, favour, honourable, it, off, on, please, propect, right forth, straight, thee, them, through, throughout, times, ye

Origin

plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun pâneh; from H6437)

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

Pânîym occurs 2,107 times in 1,874 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (126), Exodus (110), Leviticus (94), Numbers (96), Deuteronomy (114), Joshua (75), Judges (43), Ruth (2), 1 Samuel (89), 2 Samuel (64), 1 Kings (88), 2 Kings (68), 1 Chronicles (56), 2 Chronicles (105), Ezra (9), Nehemiah (27), Esther (32), Job (67), Psalms (122), Proverbs (38), Ecclesiastes (19), Song of Songs (2), Isaiah (80), Jeremiah (111), Lamentations (10), Ezekiel (128), Daniel (32), Hosea (9), Joel (6), Amos (7), Jonah (3), Micah (4), Nahum (5), Habakkuk (3), Zephaniah (3), Haggai (2), Zechariah (16), Malachi (9)

Strong's Lexicon — P