פָּנָה pânâh — to turn
Translated in the KJV as appear, at tide, behold, cast out, come on, × corner, dawning, empty, go away, lie, look, mark.
a primitive root; to turn; by implication, to face, i.e. appear, look, etc.
pânâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 34Participle (active) 21Imperfect (yiqtol) 15Imperative 12Perfect (qatal) 12Infinitive construct 9Sequential perfect (weqatal) 8Jussive 5Infinitive absolute 1
And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.
And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 3Imperative 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2
And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.
Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 5Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive construct 1Participle (active) 1
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord.
Hoph'al
Imperative 1Participle (passive) 1
Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›