STRONGS NUMBER H6435


Word Summary
pen: lest
Original Word: פֵן
Transliteration: pen
Phonetic Spelling: (pane)
Part of Speech: conjunction
Short Definition: lest
Meaning: removal, lest
Strong's Concordance
lest peradventure, that

From panah; properly, removal; used only (in the construction) adverb as conjunction, lest -- (lest) (peradventure), that...not.

see HEBREW panah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6435. pen

מֶּןֿ133 (always with Makkeph **except Genesis 38:23; 44:34; Deuteronomy 7:25; 32:27 [not Gi], Isaiah 27:3; Proverbs 25:8: MandelkernConc. under the word.)

conjunction (averting, or deprecating), lest (origin dubious: Thes Köii. 334 from מָּנָה‎, properly substantive construct in accusative for the aversion of; but פָנָה‎ is intransitive: NöM. 474 compares the enclitic particle מּוֺן‎ in ᵑ7‎, then ἄν, 'etwa,' thinking that a particle with the meaning 'es möchte etwa,' spoken in a tone of alarm, might readily acquire a deprecatory force); — lest:

1 with imperfect Genesis 3:3 ye shall not eat thereof . . . מֶּןתְּֿמֻתוּןlest ye die, 11:4 let us build a city מֶּןנָֿפוּץlest we be scattered, 19:15, 17, 19; 38:23; Genesis 45: Exodus 1:10; 23:29; 23:33 etc., 2 Kings 10:23 (followed by יֵשׁ‎), Isaiah 6:10; 27:3; 28:22; 48:5, 7; Psalm 2:12; 7:3 etc.; often after הִשָׁמֶרלְֿךָtake heed to thyself Genesis 24:6; 31:24, and especially in Deuteronomy, as Deuteronomy 4:9, 23; 6:12; 8:11 and elsewhere; after a verb of fearing Genesis 32:12, and once, even, of swearing Judges 15:12; deprecating pathetically, Genesis 44:34 how shall I go up, etc.? lest I look upon the evil that will befal my father. Once, unusually, preceding the principal clause, Proverbs 5:6 מֶּןתְּֿפַלֵּס חַיִּים אֹרַחlest she should make level the path of life, her ways are unstable, etc. (Ew Be Now; see also Toy). Note especially

a. the idiom מֶּןֿ (אָמַרְתִּי) אָמַר כִּיfor he (I) said, Lest..., implying always that some precaution has been taken to avert the dreaded contingency, Genesis 26:9 for I said, Lest I die on account of her (to obviate which, Isaac had called Rebecca his sister), 31:31; 38:11; 42:4; Exodus 13:17; Numbers 16:34; 1 Samuel 13:19; 27:11 (לֵאמֹר‎), Psalm 38:17; with אמר כי‎ implied Genesis 26:7; compare, with an aposiop., 3:22 and now, lest he put forth his hand, etc. (implying that measures are taken to prevent this, see 3:23): compare Tob 8:9.

b. מֶּןֿ‎ at the beginning of a sentence, with a dissuasive force, (Beware) lest: + Isaiah 36:18 חזקיהו אֶתְכֶם מֶּןיַֿסִּית‎ (beware) lest Hezekiah deceive you, Deuteronomy 29:17 (twice in verse) (followed by יֵשׁ‎), Jeremiah 51:46; Job 32:13; 36:18.

2 with Perfect, the result feared being conceived as having possibly already taken place; 2 Samuel 20:6 pursue after him, וְהִצִּיל ֗֗֗ לוֺ מֶּןמָֿצָאlest he have found him fenced cities, etc. (but the tense of והציל‎ makes יִמְצָא‎ probably, Drsm Bu Köiii. 486), 2 Kings 2:16 י רוּחַ ׳מֶּןנְֿשָׂאוֺ וגו ׳וַיַּשְׁלִכֵהוּ‎.