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Lexicon :: Strong's G4383 - prosōpon

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πρόσωπον
Transliteration
prosōpon (Key)
Pronunciation
pros'-o-pon
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From πρός (G4314) and ops (the visage, from ὀπτάνομαι (G3700))
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TDNT Reference: 6:768,950

Strong’s Definitions

πρόσωπον prósōpon, pros'-o-pon; from G4314 and ὤψ ṓps (the visage, from G3700); the front (as being towards view), i.e. the countenance, aspect, appearance, surface; by implication, presence, person:—(outward) appearance, × before, countenance, face, fashion, (men's) person, presence.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x

The KJV translates Strong's G4383 in the following manner: face (55x), person (7x), presence (7x), countenance (3x), not translated (1x), miscellaneous (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x
The KJV translates Strong's G4383 in the following manner: face (55x), person (7x), presence (7x), countenance (3x), not translated (1x), miscellaneous (5x).
  1. the face

    1. the front of the human head

    2. countenance, look

      1. the face so far forth as it is the organ of sight, and (by it various movements and changes) the index of the inward thoughts and feelings

    3. the appearance one presents by his wealth or property, his rank or low condition

      1. outward circumstances, external condition

      2. used in expressions which denote to regard the person in one's judgment and treatment of men

  2. the outward appearance of inanimate things

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πρόσωπον prósōpon, pros'-o-pon; from G4314 and ὤψ ṓps (the visage, from G3700); the front (as being towards view), i.e. the countenance, aspect, appearance, surface; by implication, presence, person:—(outward) appearance, × before, countenance, face, fashion, (men's) person, presence.
STRONGS G4383:
πρόσωπον, προσώπου, τό (from πρός and ὤψ, cf. μέτωπον), from Homer down; the Sept. hundreds of times for פָּנִים, also for אַפַיִם, etc.;
1.
a. the face, i. e. the anterior part of the human head: Matthew 6:16, 17; Matthew 17:2; Matthew 26:67; Mark 14:65; Luke (Luke 9:29); Luke 22:64 (T Tr WH omit; Lachmann brackets the clause); Acts 6:15; 2 Corinthians 3:7, 13, 18; (2 Corinthians 11:20); Revelation 4:7; Revelation 9:7; Revelation 10:1; τό πρόσωπον τῆς γενέσεως, the face with which one is born (A. V. his natural face), James 1:23; πίπτειν ἐπί πρόσωπον (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 27, 1 n.; 122 (116)) and ἐπί τό πρόσωπον, Matthew 17:6; Matthew 26:39; Luke 5:12; Luke 17:16; 1 Corinthians 14:25; (Revelation 7:11 Rec.; ἔπεσαν ἐπί τά πρόσωπα, Revelation 11:16; Revelation 7:11 G L T Tr WH); ἀγνωυμενος τίνι τῷ προσώπῳ, unknown to one by face, i. e. personally unknown, Galatians 1:22; bereaved of one προσώπῳ, οὐ καρδία (A. V. in presence, not in heart), 1 Thessalonians 2:17; κατά πρόσωπον, in or toward (i. e. so as to look into) the face, i. e. before, in the presence of (see κατά, II. 1 c.): opposed to ἀπών, 2 Corinthians 10:1; with τίνος added, before (the face of) one, Luke 2:31; Acts 3:13; ἔχω τινα κατά πρόσωπον, i. e. to have one present in person (A. V. face to face), Acts 25:16; ἀντέστην κατά πρόσωπον, I resisted him to the face (with a suggestion of fearlessness), Galatians 2:11 (κατά πρόσωπον λέγειν τούς λόγους, Polybius 25, 5, 2; add Job 16:8; but in Deuteronomy 7:24; Deuteronomy 9:2; Judges 2:14; 2 Chronicles 13:7, ἀντιστῆναι κατά πρόσωπον τίνος simply denotes to stand against, resist, withstand); τά κατά πρόσωπον the things before the face, i. e. open, known to all, 2 Corinthians 10:7. Expressions modelled after the Hebrew: ὁρᾶν τό πρόσωπον τίνος, to see one's face, see him personally, Acts 20:25; Colossians 2:1; ἰδεῖν, 1 Thessalonians 2:17; 1 Thessalonians 3:10; θεωρεῖν, Acts 20:38 (cf. θεωρέω, 2 a.); particularly, βλέπειν τό πρόσωπον τοῦ Θεοῦ (see βλέπω, 1 b. β.), Matthew 18:10; ὁρᾶν τό πρόσωπον τοῦ Θεοῦ (see ὁράω, 1), Revelation 22:4; ἐμφανισθῆναι τῷ πρόσωπον τοῦ Θεοῦ, to appear before the face of God, spoken of Christ, the eternal priest, who has entered into the heavenly sanctuary, Hebrews 9:24; in imitation of the Hebrew אֵל־פָּנִים פָּנִים we have the phrase πρόσωπον πρός πρόσωπον, face (turned (see πρός, I. 1 a., p. 541b)) to face (εἶδον τινα, Genesis 32:30; Judges 6:22): tropically, βλέπω namely, τόν Θεόν, see God face to face, i. e. discern perfectly his nature, will, purposes, 1 Corinthians 13:12; a person is said to be sent or to go πρό προσώπου τίνος (פ לִפנֵי) (cf. Winers Grammar, § 65, 4 b. at the end; Buttmann, 319 (274)), i. e. before one, to announce his coming and remove the obstacles from his way, Matthew 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 1:76; Luke 7:27 (Malachi 3:1); Luke 9:52; 10:1; πρό προσώπου τίνος (of time) before a thing, Acts 13:24 (so לִפְנֵי in Amos 1:1; Zechariah 8:10; where the Sept. simply πρό (cf. πρό, b., p. 536b bottom)). πρός φωτισμόν τῆς γνώσεως τῆς δόξης τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν προσώπῳ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, that we may bring forth into the light the knowledge of the glory of God as it shines in the face of Jesus Christ, 2 Corinthians 4:6 (Paul really means, the majesty of God manifest in the person of Christ; but the signification of πρόσωπον is 'face,' and Paul is led to use the word by what he had said in 2 Corinthians 3:13 of the brightness visible in the force of Moses).
b. countenance, look (Latinvultus), i. e. the face so far forth as it is the organ of sight, and (by its various movements and changes) the index of the inward thoughts and feelings: κλίνειν τό πρόσωπον εἰς τήν γῆν, to bow the face to the earth (a characteristic of fear and anxiety), Luke 24:5; Hebraistic phrases relating to the direction of the countenance, the look: τό πρόσωπον τοῦ κυρίου ἐπί τινα, namely, ἐστιν, the face of the Lord is (turned) upon one, i. e. he looks upon and watches him, 1 Peter 3:12 (from Psalm 33:17 (Ps. 34:17)); στηρίζειν τό πρόσωπον (Hebrew שׂוּם or פָּנִים נָתַן; cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, ii., p. 1109 on the same form of expression in Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Turkish) τοῦ πορεύεσθαι εἰς with an accusative of the place (A. V. steadfastly to set one's face to go etc. (see στηρίζω, a.)), Luke 9:51; moreover, even τό πρόσωπον τίνος ἐστι πορευόμενον εἰς with the accusative of place, Luke 9:53 (τό πρόσωπον σου πορευόμενον ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν, 2 Samuel 17:11); ἀπό προσώπου τίνος φεύγειν, to flee in terror from the face (German Anblick) of one enraged, Revelation 20:11; κρύπτειν τινα etc. (see κρύπτω, a.), Revelation 6:16; ἀνάψυξις ἀπό προσώπου Θεοῦ, the refreshing which comes from the bright and smiling countenance of God to one seeking comfort, Acts 3:20 (19); on 2 Thessalonians 1:9 see ἀπό, p. 59a middle; μετά τοῦ προσώπου σου, namely, ὄντα, in the presence of thy joyous countenance (see μετά, I. 2 b. β'.), Acts 2:28 (from Psalm 15:11 (Ps. 16:11)); εἰς πρόσωπον τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν, turned unto (i. e. in (R. V.)) the face of the churches as the witnesses of your zeal, 2 Corinthians 8:24; ἵνα ἐκ πολλῶν προσώπων... διά πολλῶν εὐχαριστηθῇ, that from many faces (turned toward God and expressing the devout and grateful feelings of the soul) thanks may be rendered by many (accordingly, both ἐκ πολλῶν προσώπων and διά πολλῶν belong to εὐχαριστηθῇ (cf. Meyer ad loc.; see below)), 2 Corinthians 1:11. ἀπό προσώπου τίνος (פ מִפְּנֵי),from the sight or presence of one, Acts 5:41; Acts 7:45 (here A. V. before the face; Revelation 12:14); ἐν προσώπῳ Χριστοῦ, in the presence of Christ, i. e. Christ looking on (and approving), 2 Corinthians 2:10 (Proverbs 8:30); (some would render πρόσωπον here and in 2 Corinthians 1:11 above person (cf. R. V.): — here nearly equivalent to on the part of (Vulg.in persona Christi); there equivalent to 'an individual' (Plutarch, de garrul. 13, p. 509 b.; Epictetus diss. 1, 2, 7; Polybius 8, 13, 5; 12, 27, 10; 27, 6, 4; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 1, 1 [ET]; 47, 6 [ET]; Phryn., p. 379, and Lobeck's note, p. 380)).
c. Hebraistically, the appearance one presents by his wealth or poverty, his rank or low condition; outward circumstances, external condition; so used in expressions which denote to regard the person in one's judgment and treatment of men: βλέπειν εἰς πρόσωπον ἀνθρώπων, Matthew 22:16; Mark 12:14; θαυμάζειν πρόσωπα, Jude 1:16; λαμβάνειν πρόσωπον (τίνος), Luke 20:21; Galatians 2:6 (on which see βλέπω, 2 c., θαυμάζω λαμβάνω, I. 4). καυχᾶσθαι ἐν προσώπῳ καί οὐ καρδία, to glory in those things which they simulate in look, viz. piety, love, righteousness, although their heart is devoid of these virtues, 2 Corinthians 5:12, cf. 1 Samuel 16:7.
2. the outward appearance of inanimate things (A. V. face (except in James as below)): τοῦ ἄνθους, James 1:11; τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, τῆς γῆς, Matthew 16:3 (here T brackets; WH reject the passage); Luke 12:56 (Ps. 103(104):Psalms 103:30); (so in Latin, naturae vultus, Ovid. metam. 1, 6; maris facies, Vergil Aen. 5, 768; on this use of the nounfacies see Aulus Gellius, noctes atticae 13, 29); surface: τῆς γῆς, Luke 21:35; Acts 17:26 (on the omitted article here cf. πᾶς, I. 1 c.) (Genesis 2:6; Genesis 11:8).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
2:6; 11:8; 32:30
Deuteronomy
7:24; 9:2
Judges
2:14; 6:22
1 Samuel
16:7
2 Samuel
17:11
2 Chronicles
13:7
Job
16:8
Psalms
16:11; 33:17; 34:17; 103
Proverbs
8:30
Amos
1:1
Zechariah
8:10
Malachi
3:1
Matthew
6:16; 6:17; 11:10; 16:3; 17:2; 17:6; 18:10; 22:16; 26:39; 26:67
Mark
1:2; 12:14; 14:65
Luke
1:76; 2:31; 5:12; 7:27; 9:29; 9:51; 9:52; 9:53; 10:1; 12:56; 17:16; 20:21; 21:35; 22:64; 24:5
Acts
2:28; 3:13; 3:20; 5:41; 6:15; 7:45; 13:24; 17:26; 20:25; 20:38; 25:16
1 Corinthians
1; 1:1; 13:12; 14:25
2 Corinthians
1:11; 1:11; 2:10; 3:7; 3:13; 3:13; 3:18; 4:6; 5:12; 8:24; 10:1; 10:7; 11:20
Galatians
1:22; 2:6; 2:11
Colossians
2:1
1 Thessalonians
2:17; 2:17; 3:10
2 Thessalonians
1:9
Hebrews
9:24
James
1:11; 1:23
1 Peter
3:12
Jude
1:16
Revelation
4:7; 6:16; 7:11; 7:11; 9:7; 10:1; 11:16; 12:14; 20:11; 22:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4383 matches the Greek πρόσωπον (prosōpon),
which occurs 1,066 times in 979 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 20 (Gen 2:6–Gen 43:26)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6 -

But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 -

Then the LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 -

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze,[fn] and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19 -

“You will eat bread[fn] by the sweat of your brow

until you return to the ground,

since you were taken from it.

For you are dust,

and you will return to dust.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:5 -

but he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:6 -

Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you furious? And why do you look despondent?

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 -

“Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:16 -

Then Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod,[fn] east of Eden.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 -

Then the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky ​— ​for I regret that I made them.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 -

“Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing I have made I will wipe off the face of the earth.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 -

He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:8 -

Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth’s surface had gone down,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 -

but the dove found no resting place for its foot. It returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought it into the ark to himself.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 -

In the six hundred first year,[fn] in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:23 -

Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak and placed it over both their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father naked.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 -

And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 -

So from there the LORD scattered them throughout the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 -

Therefore it is called Babylon,[fn][fn] for there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the LORD scattered them throughout the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 -

Abram replied to Sarai, “Here, your slave is in your power; do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.

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He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going? ”

She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:12 -

“This man will be like a wild donkey. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand will be against him; he will settle near all his relatives.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:3 -

Then Abram fell facedown and God spoke with him:

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17 -

Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 -

The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:1 -

The two angels entered Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in Sodom’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He bowed with his face to the ground

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 -

And he said to him, “All right,[fn] I’ll grant your request[fn] about this matter too and will not demolish the town you mentioned.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:28 -

He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw that smoke was going up from the land like the smoke of a furnace.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 -

And he said to Sarah, “Look, I am giving your brother one thousand pieces of silver. It is a verification of your honor[fn] to all who are with you. You are fully vindicated.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:8 -

He said to them, “If you are willing for me to bury my dead, listen to me and ask Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:17 -

So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre ​— ​the field with its cave and all the trees anywhere within the boundaries of the field ​— ​became

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18 -

And they[fn] settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt as you go toward Asshur.[fn] He[fn] stayed near[fn] all his relatives.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 -

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from his hunting.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 -

And Jacob saw from Laban’s face that his attitude toward him was not the same as before.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:5 -

He said to them, “I can see from your father’s face that his attitude toward me is not the same as before, but the God of my father has been with me.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 -

“You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:21 -

So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:30 -

Jacob then named the place Peniel,[fn] “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:10 -

But Jacob said, “No, please! If I have found favor with you, take this gift from me. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing God’s face, since you have accepted me.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 -

After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at Shechem in the land of Canaan and camped in front of the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 -

God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

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Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel[fn] because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

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Esau took his wives, sons, daughters, and all the people of his household, as well as his herds, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan; he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:15 -

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7 -

So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46 -

Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 -

Now the famine had spread across the whole region, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:6 -

Joseph was in charge of the country; he sold grain to all its people. His brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:3 -

But Judah said to him, “The man specifically warned us, ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:5 -

“But if you will not send him, we will not go, for the man said to us, ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’ ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:26 -

When Joseph came home, they brought him the gift they had carried into the house, and they bowed to the ground before him.


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