Lexical Summary pen: lest Original Word: פֵןTransliteration: 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 . . . מֶּןתְּֿמֻתוּן lest ye die, 11:4 let us build a city מֶּןנָֿפוּץ lest 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 הִשָׁמֶרלְֿךָ take 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 אֹרַח lest 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 כִּי for 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 מֶּןמָֿצָא lest 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. |