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Deuteronomy 4:19
“And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H6435 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, removal; used only (in the construction) adverb as conjunction, lest
- Derivation
- from H6437 (פָּנָה);
- KJV renderings
- (lest) (peradventure), that...not.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- פֶן — conjunction
- Usage
- Occurs 133 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:3Genesis 3:22Genesis 11:4Genesis 19:15Genesis 19:17
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read פֵּן here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.