פֶּ֣ן — Proverbs 25:8 Hebrew Word Study

פֶּ֣ן

𐤐𐤍

pen

lest

from פָּנָה; properly, removal; used only (in the construction) adverb as conjunction, lest; (lest) (peradventure), that...not.

H6435

Proverbs 25:8 · Word #5

Lexicon `H6435`

Lemma	פֵּן
Lemma (Paleo)	𐤐𐤍
Transliteration	pên
Strong's	H6435
In-context	lest

Morphology `HC` All morphology codes

Part of Speech C — Conjunction — Connects words or clauses

SIBI-P1 `H6435-01`

lest (in turning-aside)

Root	פנה (p-n-h)
Core Meanings	turning, facing, turning aside, directing oneself
Semantic Range	lest, otherwise, for fear that, that…not, in case
Conceptual Significance	Often used in covenantal warnings and exhortations, פֶּן signals the danger of turning away from obedience to YHWH. Its root connection to “turning aside” reinforces the biblical theme of steadfastness versus apostasy, highlighting the ever-present risk of deviation from the covenant path.
Morphological Notes	Invariable Hebrew conjunction (HC). Though historically connected to the verb פנה, it functions adverbially as a subordinating particle introducing negative purpose or feared result clauses.
Rendering Rationale	פֶּן derives from the root פנה (“to turn, turn aside”). As an invariable conjunction (HC), it introduces a clause expressing the feared possibility of someone turning aside from a desired course; rendering it as “lest (in turning-aside)” preserves both its conjunction function and its root sense of deviation or turning away.

AI-generated (openai/gpt-5.2-chat-latest)

Words from Root פנה (turning, facing, turning aside, directing oneself)

SILEX Code	Transliteration	SIBI-P1
`H6440-01`	befanay	to-my-face
`H6440-02`	befanayv	before his face
`H6440-03`	befaneyha	before her face
`H6440-04`	befaneykha	before your face
`H6440-05`	befanim	in faces
`H6440-06`	bifeney	in front of faces
`H6440-07`	bifeneyhem	at-their-faces
`H6440-08`	bifeneykhem	before your faces
`H6437-01`	bifenotam	in their turning
`H6437-02`	fanah	he has turned
`H6440-09`	fanay	my turnings
`H6440-10`	fanayv	his face-turnings
`H6440-11`	faneyha	her face-turned-ones
`H6440-13`	faneymo	his facing ones
`H6440-14`	fanim	faces
`H6437-03`	fanita	you turned
`H6437-04`	fanu	they turned
`H6440-15`	feney	the faces of
`H6440-17`	feneykhem	your faces
`H6437-05`	fenu	Turn yourselves!
`H6437-06`	foneh	one turning
`H6437-07`	fonim	turning ones
`H6440-18`	hafanayv	his face-turners
`H6437-08`	hafenu	you all caused to turn aside
`H6440-19`	hapanim	the Faces
`H6442-01`	hapenimi	the inward one
`H6442-02`	hapenimit	the inner (feminine singular)
`H6438-01`	hapinah	the turning-corner
`H6438-02`	hapinot	the turning-corners
`H6437-09`	haponeh	the one who turns
`H6437-10`	haponot	the women turning
`H6437-11`	hifenah	he caused to turn
`H6437-12`	hifenetah	she has caused to turn
`H6437-13`	hifenu	they caused to turn aside
`H6437-14`	kehafenoto	as his turning aside
`H6440-20`	kemipeney	as from faces-of
`H6440-21`	lapanim	to-their-faces
`H6440-22`	lefanay	to my faces
`H6440-23`	lefanayv	to his faces
`H6440-24`	lefaneyha	before her faces
`H6440-25`	lefaneykha	to your faces
`H6440-26`	lefaneynu	to our faces
`H6440-27`	lefanim	to front-ward
`H6440-28`	lifeney	to the faces
`H6440-29`	lifeneyhem	to the face of them
`H6440-30`	lifeneykhem	to your faces
`H6441-01`	lifenimah	to the faceward-inside
`H6437-15`	lifenot	to turn
`H6437-16`	mafeneh	a turning-place
`H6440-31`	milefanay	from before my faces
`H6440-32`	milefanayv	from before his face
`H6440-33`	milefanenu	before our faces
`H6440-34`	milefaneykha	from before your face
`H6440-35`	milifeney	from before the faces
`H6440-36`	milifeneykhem	from before you(pl.m)
`H6440-37`	milifenim	before their faces
`H6440-38`	mipanay	from before me
`H6440-39`	mipanayv	from before him
`H6440-40`	mipaneyh	from her faces
`H6440-41`	mipaneyha	from her faces
`H6440-42`	mipaneykha	from your faces
`H6440-43`	mipaneynu	from before us
`H6440-44`	mipanim	from before
`H6440-45`	mipeney	from-the-faces-of
`H6440-46`	mipeneyhem	from their facewardnesses
`H6440-47`	mipeneykhem	from your faces
`H6441-02`	mipenimah	from the inner face-ward (place)
`H6437-17`	panah	he turned
`H6440-48`	panay	my turnings
`H6440-49`	panaya	my face-turners
`H6440-50`	panayikhe	your turnings
`H6440-52`	paneyha	her faces
`H6440-53`	paneykha	your faces
`H6440-54`	paneynu	our faces
`H6440-55`	panim	faces
`H6437-18`	paninu	we have turned
`H6437-19`	panoh	you turned
`H6437-20`	panu	you (masculine plural) turned / they turned
`H6437-21`	peneh	Turn!
`H6440-56`	peney	faces
`H6440-57`	peneyhem	their face-turnings
`H6440-58`	peneykhem	your faces
`H6441-03`	penimah	face-ward within
`H6437-22`	penot	to turn
`H6437-23`	penu	Turn, you men!
`H6438-03`	pinah	a turning-corner
`H6438-04`	pinat	corner-of
`H6437-24`	pinita	you turned aside and cleared away
`H6437-25`	piniti	I have cleared away
`H6373-01`	pinon	Pinon
`H6438-05`	pinot	turning-corners of
`H6438-06`	pinotayv	its corner-angles
`H6437-26`	poneh	the one turning
`H6437-27`	ponim	faces
`H6437-28`	tefen	may you turn
`H6437-29`	tifeneh	she turns / you turn (masculine singular)
`H6437-30`	tifenu	you men will turn
`H6437-31`	ufanah	and he turned
`H6440-59`	ufanay	and my turnings
`H6440-60`	ufanayv	and his face-turnings
`H6440-62`	ufaneykha	and yourfaces
`H6440-63`	ufanim	and faces
`H6437-32`	ufanita	and you turned
`H6437-33`	ufaniti	and I turned
`H6435-02`	ufen	and lest (turning-aside that not)
`H6440-64`	ufeney	and the faces
`H6440-65`	ufeneyhem	and their faces
`H6437-34`	ufinah	and he turned
`H6437-35`	ufinu	and they turned aside
`H6440-66`	ulefanayv	and to his face-places
`H6440-67`	ulefaneykha	and to your faces (O male)
`H6440-68`	umilefanim	and from before-times
`H6440-69`	umilifeney	and from the faces
`H6440-70`	umipanay	and from my face
`H6440-72`	umipeney	and from the faces
`H6440-73`	umipeneyhem	and from before them
`H6437-36`	vaefen	And I turned
`H6437-37`	vanefen	And we turned ourselves
`H6437-38`	vatefen	and she turned
`H6437-39`	vayefen	and he turned
`H6437-40`	vayifen	and he turned
`H6437-41`	vayifenu	and they turned
`H6437-42`	veefeneh	and I will turn
`H6440-74`	velifeney	and to the faces
`H6440-75`	velifeneyhem	and to the face-front of them
`H6440-76`	vfny	and the faces
`H3312-01`	yefuneh	He-Will-Be-Turned
`H6437-43`	yifeneh	he turns
`H6437-44`	yifenu	they will turn

Word Usage (133 occurrences of H6435)

Location	Form	Transliteration	Meaning
Genesis 3:3	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 3:22	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 11:4	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 19:15	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 19:17	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 19:19	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 24:6	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 26:7	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 26:9	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 31:24	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 31:31	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 32:12	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 38:11	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 38:23	פֶּ֖ן	pen	lest
Genesis 42:4	פֶּן	pen	lest
Genesis 44:34	פֶּ֚ן	pen	lest
Genesis 45:11	פֶּן	pen	lest
Exodus 1:10	פֶּן	pen	lest
Exodus 5:3	פֶּ֨ן	pen	lest
Exodus 13:17	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Exodus 19:21	פֶּן	pen	lest
Exodus 19:22	פֶּן	pen	lest
Exodus 19:24	פֶּן	pen	lest
Exodus 20:19	פֶּן	pen	lest
Exodus 23:29	פֶּן	pen	lest
Exodus 23:33	פֶּן	pen	lest
Exodus 33:3	פֶּן	pen	lest
Exodus 34:12	פֶּן	pen	lest
Exodus 34:12	פֶּן	pen-2	lest
Exodus 34:15	פֶּן	pen	lest
Leviticus 10:7	פֶּן	pen	lest
Numbers 16:26	פֶּן	pen	lest
Numbers 16:34	פֶּן	pen	lest
Numbers 20:18	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 4:9	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 4:9	וּ/פֶן	ufen	and lest
Deuteronomy 4:16	פֶּ֨ן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 4:19	וּ/פֶן	ufen	and lest
Deuteronomy 4:23	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 6:12	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 6:15	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 7:22	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 7:25	פֶּ֚ן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 8:11	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 8:12	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 9:28	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 11:16	פֶּ֥ן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 12:13	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 12:19	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 12:30	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 12:30	וּ/פֶן	ufen	and lest
Deuteronomy 15:9	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 19:6	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 20:5	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 20:6	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 20:7	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 22:9	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 25:3	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 29:17	פֶּן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 29:17	פֶּן	pen-2	lest
Deuteronomy 32:27	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Deuteronomy 32:27	פֶּן	pen-2	lest
Joshua 2:16	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Joshua 6:18	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Joshua 24:27	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Judges 7:2	פֶּן	pen	lest
Judges 9:54	פֶּן	pen	lest
Judges 14:15	פֶּן	pen	lest
Judges 15:12	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Judges 18:25	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
1 Samuel 4:9	פֶּ֚ן	pen	lest
1 Samuel 9:5	פֶּן	pen	lest
1 Samuel 13:19	פֶּ֚ן	pen	lest
1 Samuel 15:6	פֶּן	pen	lest
1 Samuel 20:3	פֶּן	pen	lest
1 Samuel 27:11	פֶּן	pen	lest
1 Samuel 31:4	פֶּן	pen	lest
2 Samuel 1:20	פֶּן	pen	lest
2 Samuel 1:20	פֶּֽן	pen-2	lest
2 Samuel 12:28	פֶּן	pen	lest
2 Samuel 15:14	פֶּן	pen	lest
2 Samuel 17:16	פֶּ֚ן	pen	lest
2 Samuel 20:6	פֶּן	pen	lest
2 Kings 2:16	פֶּן	pen	lest
2 Kings 10:23	פֶּן	pen	lest
Isaiah 6:10	פֶּן	pen	lest
Isaiah 27:3	פֶּ֚ן	pen	lest
Isaiah 28:22	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Isaiah 36:18	פֶּן	pen	lest
Isaiah 48:5	פֶּן	pen	lest
Isaiah 48:7	פֶּן	pen	lest
Jeremiah 1:17	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Jeremiah 4:4	פֶּן	pen	lest
Jeremiah 6:8	פֶּן	pen	lest
Jeremiah 6:8	פֶּן	pen-2	lest
Jeremiah 10:24	פֶּן	pen	lest
Jeremiah 21:12	פֶּן	pen	lest
Jeremiah 38:19	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Jeremiah 51:46	וּ/פֶן	ufen	and-lest
Hosea 2:5	פֶּן	pen	lest
Amos 5:6	פֶּן	pen	lest
Malachi 3:24	פֶּן	pen	lest
Psalms 2:12	פֶּן	pen	lest
Psalms 7:3	פֶּן	pen	lest
Psalms 13:4	פֶּן	pen	lest
Psalms 13:5	פֶּן	pen	lest
Psalms 28:1	פֶּן	pen	lest
Psalms 38:17	פֶּן	pen	lest
Psalms 50:22	פֶּן	pen	lest
Psalms 59:12	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Psalms 91:12	פֶּן	pen	lest
Proverbs 5:6	פֶּן	pen	lest
Proverbs 5:9	פֶּן	pen	lest
Proverbs 5:10	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Proverbs 9:8	פֶּן	pen	lest
Proverbs 20:13	פֶּן	pen	lest
Proverbs 22:25	פֶּן	pen	lest
Proverbs 24:18	פֶּן	pen	lest
Proverbs 25:8	פֶּ֣ן	pen	lest
Proverbs 25:10	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Proverbs 25:16	פֶּן	pen	lest
Proverbs 25:17	פֶּן	pen	lest
Proverbs 26:4	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Proverbs 26:5	פֶּן	pen	lest
Proverbs 30:6	פֶּן	pen	lest
Proverbs 30:9	פֶּ֥ן	pen	lest
Proverbs 30:9	וּ/פֶֽן	ufen	or lest
Proverbs 30:10	פֶּֽן	pen	lest
Proverbs 31:5	פֶּן	pen	lest
Job 32:13	פֶּן	pen	lest
Job 36:18	פֶּן	pen	lest
Ruth 4:6	פֶּן	pen	lest
1 Chronicles 10:4	פֶּן	pen	lest

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Lexicon H6435

Morphology HC All morphology codes

SIBI-P1 H6435-01

Words from Root פנה (turning, facing, turning aside, directing oneself)

Word Usage (133 occurrences of H6435)

Lexicon `H6435`

Morphology `HC` All morphology codes

SIBI-P1 `H6435-01`