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H6435פֶּן־pen

lestPart of speech: Hebrew Conjunction

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Occurrences by book

  1. 17
  2. 13
  3. 1
  4. 3
  5. 28
  6. 3
  7. 5
  8. 1
  9. 7
  10. 6
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2
  13. 1
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 2
  19. 9
  20. 18
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 6
  24. 8
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 1
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 1
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. 1

Renderings

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133 occurrences in 125 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Genesis 3:3

    but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  2. Genesis 3:22

    And the LORD God said: 'Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  3. Genesis 11:4

    And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  4. Genesis 19:15

    And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying: 'Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here; lest thou be swept away in the iniquity of the city.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  5. Genesis 19:17

    And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said: 'Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be swept away.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  6. Genesis 19:19

    behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shown unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the evil overtake me, and I die.

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  7. Genesis 24:6

    And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither.

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  8. Genesis 26:7

    And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said: 'She is my sister'; for he feared to say: 'My wife'; 'lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is fair to look upon.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  9. Genesis 26:9

    And Abimelech called Isaac, and said: 'Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou: She is my sister?' And Isaac said unto him: 'Because I said: Lest I die because of her.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  10. Genesis 31:24

    And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night, and said unto him: 'Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  11. Genesis 31:31

    And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'Because I was afraid; for I said: Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force.

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  12. Genesis 32:12

    Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children.

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  13. Genesis 38:11

    Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law: 'Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up'; for he said: 'Lest he also die, like his brethren.' And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  14. Genesis 38:23

    And Judah said: 'Let her take it, lest we be put to shame; behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.'

    פֶּ֖ן pen “lest”

  15. Genesis 42:4

    But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said: 'Lest peradventure harm befall him.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  16. Genesis 44:34

    For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I look upon the evil that shall come on my father.'

    פֶּ֚ן pen “lest”

  17. Genesis 45:11

    and there will I sustain thee; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  18. Exodus 1:10

    come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  19. Exodus 5:3

    And they said: 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us. Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest He fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.'

    פֶּ֨ן־ Pen- “lest”

  20. Exodus 13:17

    And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said: 'Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.'

    פֶּֽן־ pen- “lest”

  21. Exodus 19:21

    And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  22. Exodus 19:22

    And let the priests also, that come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  23. Exodus 19:24

    And the LORD said unto him: 'Go, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee; but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest He break forth upon them.'

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  24. Exodus 20:19

    And the LORD said unto Moses: Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel: Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”

  25. Exodus 23:29

    I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

    פֶּן־ pen- “lest”