pana · turn

What it means

pana (פָּנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “turn”.

Turn toward something; face, look. In another form of the verb, clear, empty a place.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To turn toward something, someone or God.
2. To fix the eyes on something and attend to it, not overlook it.
3. To clear a place for someone about to come in.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To turn, to turn toward something; hence to look, to face; in another form, to clear, to empty. BDB: to turn; by implication, to face, that is, appear, look. From the same root comes פָּנִים, “face”.

• Turning and going away Genesis 18:22Deuteronomy 1:40
• Looking this way and that Exodus 2:12
• “Turn to me” Psalms 25:16Isaiah 45:22
• Facing a direction: the oxen of the bronze sea 2 Chronicles 4:4
• Clearing, preparing a house Genesis 24:31Leviticus 14:36

How we translate it

“Turned” 55 times, “turn” 37, “faces” 9, “facing” 8, “turns” 5, “clear” 4… In the intensive form, “prepare” or “empty” a house. פָּנָה עֹרֶף is “turn the back” (“they have turned to me the back and not the face”, Jeremiah 2:27).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• turned ×55
• turn ×37
• faces ×9
• facing ×8
• turns ×5
• clear ×4
• Corner Gate ×1
• He looked ×1
• You cleared the ground ×1
• You looked ×1
• others ×13

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×6
• Leviticus×5
• Numbers×5
• Deuteronomy×16
• Joshua×5
• Judges×9
• 1 Samuel×5
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×8
• 2 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×9
• Job×5
• Psalms×9
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×10
• Ezekiel×14
• Hosea×1
• Nahum×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Haggai×1
• Malachi×2

• Genesis 18:22

  The men turned from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before YHWH.

• Genesis 24:31

  He said, “Come in, blessed of YHWH! Why do you stand outside? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

• Genesis 24:49

  So now, if you are going to show loyal love and faithfulness to my lord, tell me; and if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left.”

• Genesis 24:63

  Isaac went out to meditate in the field as evening drew near; he lifted up his eyes and saw, and look, camels were coming.

• Exodus 2:12

  He looked this way and that, and when he saw that there was no one, he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

• Exodus 7:23

  Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.

• Exodus 10:6

  They will fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, such as your fathers and your fathers’ fathers have not seen, from the day they came to be on the earth until this day.’” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

• Exodus 14:27

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned as morning appeared to its normal flow; and the Egyptians, fleeing, met it; and YHWH shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

• Exodus 16:10

  As Aaron spoke to all the community of the sons of Israel, they turned toward the wilderness, and look, the glory of YHWH appeared in the cloud.

• Exodus 32:15

  And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets written on both their sides; on one side and on the other they were written.

• Leviticus 14:36

  The priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest comes to examine the mark, so that everything that is in the house does not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall come to examine the house.

• Leviticus 19:4

  Do not turn to idols, and gods of cast metal you shall not make for yourselves. I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Leviticus 19:31

  Do not turn to those who call up the dead or to spiritists; do not seek them out to become unclean by them. I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Leviticus 20:6

  And the person who turns to those who call up the dead and to spiritists, prostituting themselves after them, I will set my face against that person and cut him off from among his people.

• Leviticus 26:9

  And I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish my covenant with you.

• Numbers 12:10

  And the cloud withdrew from over the tent, and look, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and look, she was leprous.

• Numbers 14:25

  Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valley. Tomorrow turn and set out for yourselves into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.”

• Numbers 16:15

  And Moses became very angry and said to YHWH, “Do not turn to their offering. Not one donkey have I taken from them, and I have not harmed one of them.”

• Numbers 16:42

  And it happened, when the community had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they turned toward the tent of meeting, and look, the cloud covered it, and the glory of YHWH appeared.

• Numbers 21:33

  Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan; and Og king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei.

• Deuteronomy 1:7

  Turn, set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorite and to all its neighbors, in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Negev, and on the coast of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

• Deuteronomy 1:24

  They turned and went up into the hill country, came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

• Deuteronomy 1:40

  But you, turn and set out for the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.”

• Deuteronomy 2:1

  Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds, as YHWH had spoken to me, and we went around Mount Seir many days.

• Deuteronomy 2:3

  “You have gone around this mountain long enough. Turn north.

• Deuteronomy 2:8

  So we passed by, away from our brothers, the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the way of the Arabah, from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

• Deuteronomy 3:1

  Then we turned and went up by the way to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out to meet us, he and all his people, for war at Edrei.

• Deuteronomy 9:15

  So I turned and came down from the mountain, while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

• Deuteronomy 9:27

  Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not turn to the hardness of this people, or to its wickedness, or to its sin,

• Deuteronomy 10:5

  Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made; and they are there, as YHWH commanded me.

• Deuteronomy 16:7

  And you shall cook it and eat it in the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

• Deuteronomy 23:11

  And when evening comes on he shall wash with water, and when the sun goes down he may come inside the camp.

• Deuteronomy 29:18

  Beware lest there be among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe whose heart is turning away today from YHWH our Elohim to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poison and wormwood.

• Deuteronomy 30:17

  But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, and are drawn away and bow down to other gods and serve them,

• Deuteronomy 31:18

  And I will surely hide my face on that day because of all the evil that they have done, for they have turned to other gods.

• Deuteronomy 31:20

  For I will bring them into the land that I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they will eat and be satisfied and grow fat, and they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

• Joshua 7:12

  So the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their back before their enemies, for they have become a thing devoted to destruction. I will not be with you any more unless you destroy the things devoted to destruction from among you.

• Joshua 8:20

  The men of Ai turned back and looked, and look, the smoke of the city was going up to the heavens, and they had no strength to flee this way or that way; and the people who were fleeing to the wilderness turned back against the pursuer.

• Joshua 15:2

  And their south border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces south;

• Joshua 15:7

  and the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and northward turned to Gilgal, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, which is south of the brook; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and its ends were at En-rogel;

And 95 more times.