What is the Strong's number for Paniym?

The Strong's number for Paniym (פָּנִים) is H6440. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Paniym (Strong’s H6440): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Paniym mean?

Paniym (פָּנִים, Strong's H6440) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as 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.). The King James Bible translates it as accept, a-(be-) fore(-time), against, anger, × 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, × him(-self), honourable, impudent, in, it, look(-eth) (-s), × me, meet, × more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), × on, open, out of, over against, the partial, person, please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, regard, right forth, serve, × shewbread, sight, state, straight, street, × thee, × them(-selves), through ( -out), till, time(-s) past, (un-) to(-ward), upon, upside ( down), with(-in, -stand), × ye, × you.

Paniym (פָּנִים) is the Hebrew word numbered H6440 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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.). In the King James Bible it is translated accept, a-(be-) fore(-time), against, anger, at.

פָּנִים

pânîym · Hebrew

Strong’s H6440 · paw-neem'

Original wordפָּנִים
Transliterationpânîym
Pronunciationpaw-neem'
Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
Strong’s numberH6440
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

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.)

Derivation. plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun פָּנֶה; from H6437);

How the King James Bible translates it

accept, a-(be-) fore(-time), against, anger, × 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, × him(-self), honourable, impudent, in, it, look(-eth) (-s), × me, meet, × more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), × on, open, out of, over against, the partial, person, please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, regard, right forth, serve, × shewbread, sight, state, straight, street, × thee, × them(-selves), through ( -out), till, time(-s) past, (un-) to(-ward), upon, upside ( down), with(-in, -stand), × ye, × you. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Paniym appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Paniym (H6440) stands behind 2,083 English renderings in 1,867 verses across 38 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezekiel (154), Genesis (141), Deuteronomy (131).

How the King James Bible renders Paniym, by count

before1,135 of 2,083 (54 percent)
face328 of 2,083 (16 percent)
presence76 of 2,083 (4 percent)
because67 of 2,083 (3 percent)
faces63 of 2,083 (3 percent)
sight40 of 2,083 (2 percent)

Three places to read Paniym

Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Judges 3:27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
Job 33:5 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Paniym in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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