פֶּן־
lest
also: not, beware lest fuller range ↓
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Part of speech
- Conjunction
- A joining word (e.g. “and,” “but”) linking words or clauses.
Every verse where H6435 appears — 125 distinct verses across 20 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 17 verses
- Genesis 3:3 פֶּן conj but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
- Genesis 3:22 פֶּן conj Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 11:4 פֶּן conj They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
- Genesis 19:15 פֶּן conj When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
- Genesis 19:17 פֶּן conj It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"
- Genesis 19:19 פֶּן conj See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
- Genesis 24:6 פֶּן conj Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.
- Genesis 26:7 פֶּן conj The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she was beautiful to look on.
- Genesis 26:9 פֶּן conj Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
- Genesis 31:24 פֶּן conj God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
- Genesis 31:31 פֶּן conj Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'
- Genesis 32:11 פֶּן conj Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
- Genesis 38:11 פֶּן conj Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
- Genesis 38:23 פֶּ֖ן conj Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven't found her."
- Genesis 42:4 פֶּן conj But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."
- Genesis 44:34 פֶּ֚ן conj For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father."
- Genesis 45:11 פֶּן conj There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'
Exodus 12 verses
- Exodus 1:10 פֶּן conj Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."
- Exodus 5:3 פֶּ֨ן conj They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
- Exodus 13:17 פֶּֽן conj It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"
- Exodus 19:21 פֶּן conj Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.
- Exodus 19:22 פֶּן conj Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break forth on them."
- Exodus 19:24 פֶּן conj Yahweh said to him, "Go down and you shall bring Aaron up with you, but don't let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break forth on them."
- Exodus 20:19 פֶּן conj They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."
- Exodus 23:29 פֶּן conj I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
- Exodus 23:33 פֶּן conj They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
- Exodus 33:3 פֶּן conj to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."
- Exodus 34:12 פֶּן פֶּן conj conj Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:
- Exodus 34:15 פֶּן conj Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 3 verses
- Numbers 16:26 פֶּן conj He spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins.
- Numbers 16:34 פֶּן conj All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
- Numbers 20:18 פֶּן conj Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.
Deuteronomy 24 verses
- Deuteronomy 4:9 פֶּן וּ/פֶן conj conj + conj Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;
- Deuteronomy 4:16 פֶּ֨ן conj Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:19 וּ/פֶן conj + conj and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
- Deuteronomy 4:23 פֶּֽן conj Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
- Deuteronomy 6:12 פֶּן conj then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 6:15 פֶּן conj for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 7:22 פֶּן conj Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
- Deuteronomy 7:25 פֶּ֚ן conj The engraved images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 8:11 פֶּן conj Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:
- Deuteronomy 8:12 פֶּן conj lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
- Deuteronomy 9:28 פֶּן conj lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
- Deuteronomy 11:16 פֶּ֥ן conj Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
- Deuteronomy 12:13 פֶּֽן conj Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
- Deuteronomy 12:19 פֶּֽן conj Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
- Deuteronomy 12:30 פֶּן וּ/פֶן conj conj + conj take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
- Deuteronomy 15:9 פֶּן conj Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
- Deuteronomy 19:6 פֶּן conj lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
- Deuteronomy 20:5 פֶּן conj The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
- Deuteronomy 20:6 פֶּן conj What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it.
- Deuteronomy 20:7 פֶּן conj What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
- Deuteronomy 22:9 פֶּן conj You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
- Deuteronomy 25:3 פֶּן conj Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
- Deuteronomy 29:18 פֶּן פֶּן conj conj lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
- Deuteronomy 32:27 פֶּֽן פֶּן conj conj Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.
Joshua 3 verses
- Joshua 2:16 פֶּֽן conj She said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way.
- Joshua 6:18 פֶּֽן conj But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
- Joshua 24:27 פֶּֽן conj Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.
Judges 5 verses
- Judges 7:2 פֶּן conj Yahweh said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand has saved me.
- Judges 9:54 פֶּן conj Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, A woman killed him. His young man thrust him through, and he died.
- Judges 14:15 פֶּן conj It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire: have you called us to impoverish us? is it not [so]?
- Judges 15:12 פֶּֽן conj They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.
- Judges 18:25 פֶּֽן conj The children of Dan said to him, "Don't let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household."
Ruth 1 verse
1 Samuel 7 verses
- 1 Samuel 4:9 פֶּ֚ן conj Be strong, and behave yourselves like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
- 1 Samuel 9:5 פֶּן conj When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.
- 1 Samuel 13:19 פֶּ֚ן conj Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
- 1 Samuel 15:6 פֶּן conj Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you shown kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
- 1 Samuel 20:3 פֶּן conj David swore moreover, and said, Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, Don't let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.
- 1 Samuel 27:11 פֶּן conj David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and so has been his manner all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 31:4 פֶּן conj Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
2 Samuel 5 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:20 פֶּן פֶּֽן conj conj Don't tell it in Gath, Don't publish it in the streets of Ashkelon; Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
- 2 Samuel 12:28 פֶּן conj Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.
- 2 Samuel 15:14 פֶּן conj David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.
- 2 Samuel 17:16 פֶּ֚ן conj Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.
- 2 Samuel 20:6 פֶּן conj David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 2:16 פֶּן conj They said to him, See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray you, and seek your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and cast him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, You shall not send.
- 2 Kings 10:23 פֶּן conj Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal; and he said to the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of Yahweh, but the worshippers of Baal only.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Job 2 verses
Psalms 9 verses
- Psalms 2:12 פֶּן conj Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
- Psalms 7:2 פֶּן conj Lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, Ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
- Psalms 13:3 פֶּן conj Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
- Psalms 13:4 פֶּן conj Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
- Psalms 28:1 פֶּן conj To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; Lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
- Psalms 38:16 פֶּן conj For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, Or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
- Psalms 50:22 פֶּן conj "Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
- Psalms 59:11 פֶּֽן conj Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
- Psalms 91:12 פֶּן conj They will bear you up in their hands, So that you won't dash your foot against a stone.
Proverbs 17 verses
- Proverbs 5:6 פֶּן conj She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.
- Proverbs 5:9 פֶּן conj Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one;
- Proverbs 5:10 פֶּֽן conj Lest strangers feast on your wealth, And your labors enrich another man's house.
- Proverbs 9:8 פֶּן conj Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
- Proverbs 20:13 פֶּן conj Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
- Proverbs 22:25 פֶּן conj Lest you learn his ways, And ensnare your soul.
- Proverbs 24:18 פֶּן conj Lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.
- Proverbs 25:8 פֶּ֣ן conj Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
- Proverbs 25:10 פֶּֽן conj Lest one who hears it put you to shame, And your bad reputation never depart.
- Proverbs 25:16 פֶּן conj Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, Lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
- Proverbs 25:17 פֶּן conj Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, Lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
- Proverbs 26:4 פֶּֽן conj Don't answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him.
- Proverbs 26:5 פֶּן conj Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.
- Proverbs 30:6 פֶּן conj Don't you add to his words, Lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
- Proverbs 30:9 פֶּ֥ן וּ/פֶֽן conj conj + conj Lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' Or lest I be poor, and steal, And so dishonor the name of my God.
- Proverbs 30:10 פֶּֽן conj "Don't slander a servant to his master, Lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
- Proverbs 31:5 פֶּן conj Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
Isaiah 6 verses
- Isaiah 6:10 פֶּן conj Make the heart of this people fat; Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And turn again, and be healed."
- Isaiah 27:3 פֶּ֚ן conj I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
- Isaiah 28:22 פֶּֽן conj Now therefore don't you be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, on the whole earth.
- Isaiah 36:18 פֶּן conj Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- Isaiah 48:5 פֶּן conj therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I shown it you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
- Isaiah 48:7 פֶּן conj They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
Jeremiah 7 verses
- Jeremiah 1:17 פֶּֽן conj You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
- Jeremiah 4:4 פֶּן conj Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
- Jeremiah 6:8 פֶּן פֶּן conj conj Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.
- Jeremiah 10:24 פֶּן conj Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
- Jeremiah 21:12 פֶּן conj House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
- Jeremiah 38:19 פֶּֽן conj Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
- Jeremiah 51:46 וּ/פֶן conj + conj Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after that in another year [shall come] news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Hosea 1 verse
Amos 1 verse
Malachi 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
פן (pên) is a Hebrew word most often rendered “lest.” Debuting at Genesis 3:3, it then recurs through the corpus. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 125 verses — common. It also covers “not” and “beware lest”, alongside “lest” — see its full sense range. Related forms include פנה, פנים and יפנה. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6435 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 125
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 125 distinct verses.
- 20 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 20 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #339
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 339 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 125 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 24 verses 19%
- Genesis 17 verses 14%
- Proverbs 17 verses 14%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 125 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 57 verses · 46%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 38 verses · 30%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 30 verses · 24%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Lest 1×, Lest peradventure 1×, Not 1×
- American Standard Version: Lest 1×, Lest peradventure 1×, Not 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Or 38×, Lest 21×, Otherwise 19×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lest 110×, That 11×, Not 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6435 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6435 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6435 across 124 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6435 across 142 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. with impf.
- 2. with Pf., the result feared being conceived as having possibly already taken place
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
פֶּן־ 133 (alw. with Makkeph) conj. (adverting or deprecating), lest
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פנה (pânâh) (H6437) — to turn.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פן
- , Targ. Jon. I, 8 some ed. ומפן, read ומנן, v. מְנָן
פֶּן
- [eventually,] lest. Zeb. 106ᵃ כל מקום שנאמר השמר פן ואל וכ׳ wherever the Scripture has ‘be guarded, lest’, or al, it introduces a prohibitory law (v. עָשָׂה); Sot. 5ᵃ, a. fr. Sifré Deut. 70, quot. in Yalk. ib. 882 השמר בלא תעשה פן בלא תעשה ‘be guarded’ means a prohibitory law, and so does ‘lest’.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H6435 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פֶּן | Conjunction | Amos 5:6 | 97 |
| פֶּֽן | Conjunction | Deuteronomy 4:23 | 19 |
| פֶּ֚ן | Conjunction | Deuteronomy 7:25 | 6 |
| וּ/פֶן | Conjunction | Deuteronomy 4:9 | 4 |
| פֶּ֥ן | Conjunction | Deuteronomy 11:16 | 2 |
| פֶּ֨ן | Conjunction | Deuteronomy 4:16 | 2 |
| וּ/פֶֽן | Conjunction | Proverbs 30:9 | 1 |
| פֶּ֖ן | Conjunction | Genesis 38:23 | 1 |
| פֶּ֣ן | Conjunction | Proverbs 25:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6435, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Proper names from this root
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Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 121 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 125 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 3:3
- Exodus 1:10
- Leviticus 10:7
- Numbers 16:26
- Deuteronomy 4:9
- Joshua 2:16
- Judges 7:2
- Ruth 4:6
- 1 Samuel 4:9
- 2 Samuel 1:20
- 2 Kings 2:16
- 1 Chronicles 10:4
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
