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:
Nehemiah 2:1: "of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave"
Nehemiah 2:1: "Now I had not been formerly sad in his presence."
Nehemiah 2:2: "Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick?"
Nehemiah 2:3: "forever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place"
Nehemiah 2:5: "the king, and if thy servant have found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto"
Nehemiah 2:6: "be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set"
Nehemiah 2:13: "by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to"
Nehemiah 4:2: "And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do"
Nehemiah 4:5: "their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger"
Nehemiah 4:9: "against them day and night, because of"
Nehemiah 4:14: "of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord,"
Nehemiah 5:15: "did not I, because of the fear of God."
Nehemiah 5:15: "But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken"
Nehemiah 6:19: "Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words"
Nehemiah 8:1: "into the street that was before the water gate; and they spoke unto Ezra"
Nehemiah 8:2: "brought the law before the congregation both of men and women,"
Nehemiah 8:3: "And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from"
Nehemiah 8:3: "therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning"
Nehemiah 9:8: "his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give"
Nehemiah 9:11: "And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors"
Nehemiah 9:24: "the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,"
Nehemiah 9:28: "they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion"
Nehemiah 9:32: "all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes,"
Nehemiah 9:35: "land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works."
Nehemiah 12:36: "of God, and Ezra the scribe before"
Nehemiah 13:4: " And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house"
Nehemiah 13:5: "for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the meat offerings,"
Nehemiah 13:19: "the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut,"
Esther 1:3: "the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before"
Esther 1:10: "chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,"
Esther 1:11: "Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show"
Esther 1:13: "so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:"
Esther 1:14: "and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)"
Esther 1:16: "And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not"
Esther 1:17: "Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not."
Esther 1:19: "the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws"
Esther 1:19: "altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus;"
Esther 2:9: "pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her"
Esther 2:11: "And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's"
Esther 2:17: "the women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins;"
Esther 2:23: "and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king."
Esther 3:7: "they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day"
Esther 4:2: "And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter"
Esther 4:5: "chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai,"
Esther 4:6: "the street of the city, which was before the king's gate."
Esther 4:8: "the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people."
Esther 5:14: "unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made."
Esther 6:1: "of the chronicles; and they were read before the king."
Esther 6:9: "horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man"
Esther 6:11: "through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom"
