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Joshua 8:20
“And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H6437 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to turn; by implication, to face, i.e. appear, look, etc.
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- appear, at (even-) tide, behold, cast out, come on, [idiom] corner, dawning, empty, go away, lie, look, mark, pass away, prepare, regard, (have) respect (to), (re-) turn (aside, away, back, face, self), [idiom] right (early).
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּפְנ֣וּ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 135 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 18:22Genesis 24:31Genesis 24:49Genesis 24:63Exodus 2:12
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 פָּנָה 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.