Strong's #6440: paniym (pronounced paw-neem')
plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437); 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.):--+ accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X 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, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ּ / ּ
pânı̂ym / pâneh
1) face
1a) face, faces
1b) presence, person
1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim)
1d) face (of animals)
1e) face, surface (of ground)
1f) as adverb of loc/temp
1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before
1g) with preposition
1g1) 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
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H6437
Usage:
This word is used 2119 times:
2 Chronicles 25:14: "of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense"
2 Chronicles 25:17: "saying, Come, let us see one another in the face."
2 Chronicles 25:21: "of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah,"
2 Chronicles 25:22: "And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent."
2 Chronicles 26:19: "the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside"
2 Chronicles 27:6: "because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God."
2 Chronicles 28:3: "whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel."
2 Chronicles 28:9: "whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said"
2 Chronicles 28:14: "the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation."
2 Chronicles 29:6: "our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned"
2 Chronicles 29:11: "the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense."
2 Chronicles 29:19: "have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 29:23: "the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands"
2 Chronicles 30:9: "your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land:"
2 Chronicles 30:9: "and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto"
2 Chronicles 31:20: "that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God."
2 Chronicles 32:2: "that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,"
2 Chronicles 32:7: "be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria,"
2 Chronicles 32:7: "dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all"
2 Chronicles 32:12: "and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon"
2 Chronicles 32:21: "of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god,"
2 Chronicles 33:2: "whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel."
2 Chronicles 33:9: "whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel."
2 Chronicles 33:12: "And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly"
2 Chronicles 33:12: "the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,"
2 Chronicles 33:19: "and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among"
2 Chronicles 33:23: "And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself;"
2 Chronicles 34:4: "the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above"
2 Chronicles 34:4: "and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed"
2 Chronicles 34:18: "me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king."
2 Chronicles 34:24: "the book which they have read before the king of Judah:"
2 Chronicles 34:27: "thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest"
2 Chronicles 34:27: "place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes,"
2 Chronicles 34:27: "me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also,"
2 Chronicles 34:31: "and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 35:22: "Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight"
2 Chronicles 36:12: "of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet"
Ezra 7:28: "And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's"
Ezra 8:21: "the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right"
Ezra 8:29: "ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief"
Ezra 9:6: "I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities"
Ezra 9:7: "to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day."
Ezra 9:9: "but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving,"
Ezra 9:15: "as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand"
Ezra 9:15: "for we cannot stand before thee because of this."
Ezra 10:1: "and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto"
Ezra 10:6: "Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into"
Nehemiah 1:4: "certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,"
Nehemiah 1:6: "of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night,"
Nehemiah 1:11: "this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was"
