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Judges 20:42
“Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.” (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
- יִּפְנ֞וּ — 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.