פָּנִים

panim

pah-NEEM

face — always plural in Hebrew

Where it comes from

Panim is plural and has no singular. A person has faces, not a face — the language assumes you turn more than one way. To speak face to face is to have all of them present at once, which is why the phrase means honesty rather than proximity.

Every place it appears

Strong's H6440. It stands in 1891 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. See them →

Exodus 33:11

And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

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