Word: פני
Representation: PNI
Transliteration: P'nei
Noun: "face", "surface"
Strong Concordance: H6440
Exposition
This word expresses a speaks of a solid object's outer covering. When speaking of a person, we typically use it in the plural form in Hebrew, while using the singular form "face" in English.
When speaking of inanimate non-anthropomorphic objects, we normally use the term "surface".
In either case, it never refers to something that is immaterial ("the surface of the air"), but only physical objects ("the surface of the firmament"). Things that can be felt and touched can have a surface (or face). Things that have no physical form do not use this term.
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