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:
Zechariah 4:7: "art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth"
Zechariah 5:3: "is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one"
Zechariah 7:2: "and their men, to pray before the LORD,"
Zechariah 8:10: "For before these days there was no hire for man,"
Zechariah 8:21: "Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek"
Zechariah 8:22: "in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD."
Zechariah 12:8: "of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before"
Zechariah 14:4: "the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east,"
Zechariah 14:5: "yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah"
Zechariah 14:20: "house shall be like the bowls before the altar."
Malachi 1:8: "will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 1:9: "by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 2:3: "and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away"
Malachi 2:5: "them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name."
Malachi 2:9: "ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law."
Malachi 3:1: "my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek,"
Malachi 3:14: "and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?"
Malachi 3:16: "it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name."
Malachi 4:5: "you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day"
