'Face' in the Bible

Then Ahimaaz called and said to the king, "Peace." He bowed down to the king with his face to the ground, and he said, "May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delivered the men who raised their hand against my lord the king."

and because the king had covered his face and cried with a loud voice, "My son, Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son."

Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming over to him, so Araunah went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.

They told the king, "Nathan the prophet is here." He came into the presence of the king and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.

Then Bathsheba knelt with her face to the ground and did obeisance to the king, and she said, "May my lord, King David, live forever."

He said, "You know that the kingship was mine and that all Israel had set their face toward me as king, but the kingship turned around and became my brother's, for it was from Yahweh for him [to have it].

The vestibule on the face of the main hall of the temple [was] twenty cubits [in] its length, and the width of the temple [was] ten cubits wide on the face of the temple.

[Then] the king turned his face around, and he blessed all of the assembly of Israel. (Now all the assembly of Israel was standing).

[Do these things] so that they may fear you all the days that they live on the face of the land that you gave to our ancestors.

then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, [even] the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.

To his son I will give one tribe in order to be a lamp for my servant David, always before my face, in Jerusalem the city in which I have chosen to place my name.

It happened that Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard [of it] while he was still in Egypt where he had fled from the face of King Solomon, and Jeroboam had lived in Egypt.

Then the king responded and said to the man of God, "Please entreat the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me that my hand may return to me." So the man of God entreated the face of Yahweh, and the hand of the king returned to him, as it was in the beginning.

It happened that Obadiah [was] on the way, and suddenly Elijah was there to meet him. When he recognized him, he fell on his face and said, "[Is] this you, my lord Elijah?"

So Ahab went up to eat and to drink while Elijah went to the top of Carmel, bent down to the earth, and put his face between his knees.

It happened at the moment Elijah heard, he covered his face with his cloak and went out and stood [at] the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice [came] to him and said, "{Elijah, why are you here}?"

Then Ahab went to his house, sullen and angry because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him [when] he had said, "I will not give to you the inheritance of my ancestors." So he lay on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat [any] food.

Then Elisha said, "{As Yahweh of hosts lives}, before whom I stand, surely if I was not {regarding the face} of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would have not looked at you nor even glanced at you.

Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, you must not greet them; if anyone greets you, you must not answer them. You must put my staff on the face of the boy."

Gehazi crossed over before them, and he put the staff on the face of the boy; but there was no sound, and there was no sign of life, so he returned to meet him. He told him, saying, "The boy did not wake up."

On the next day, he took the bed cover, dipped [it] in the water, and spread [it] over his face so that he died. Then Hazael became king in his place.

When he lifted up his face to the window, he asked, "Who [is] with me?" Two or three eunuchs looked down to him.

At that time, Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it; then Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.

and Isaiah said to them, "Thus you must say to your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You must not be afraid because the face of the words which you have heard, [with] which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.

Then Hezekiah prayed before the face of Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel who lives [above] the cherubim. You [are] God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the world; you have made the heavens and the earth.

Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, saying,

I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes the dish; he wipes it and turns it on its face.

because you have a responsive heart, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants to become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before my face, I have also heard, declares Yahweh.

Yahweh had said, "Even Judah I will remove from my face, as I have removed Israel; I will reject this city that I have chosen, even Jerusalem and the house [of] which I said, 'My name shall be there'!"

Seek Yahweh and his strength; seek his face continually!

that they may fear you [and] walk in your ways all the days that they [are] alive upon the face of the land that you have given to our ancestors.

O Yahweh God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember the loyal love of your servant, David!"

[then if] my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and will pray and will seek my face and will turn from their evil ways, then I myself shall hear from the heavens and will forgive their sins and heal their land.

then I will uproot them from upon my land that I have given to them, and this house that I have consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face, and I will make it a proverb and a taunt among all the nations.

And all the kings of the earth sought the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God put in his heart.

Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek Yahweh. And he called for a fast through all Judah.

Then Jehoshaphat bowed his face down to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before Yahweh to worship Yahweh.

Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel, and he sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, {let us face one another}.

For when you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your children [will find] compassion before their captors and return to this land, for Yahweh your God [is] gracious and compassionate, and he will not turn away his face from you if you return to him."

When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and [that] his face [was set] for battle against Jerusalem,

Then Yahweh sent an angel, and he destroyed every mighty warrior of strength, commander, and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. And he returned with shamed face to his land and went into the house of his god. And some of the offspring of his loins fell upon him there with the sword.

But Josiah did not turn his face from him, but he disguised himself to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and he went out to fight in the plain of Megiddo.

and said, "My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God. For our sins have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.

So the king said to me, "Why is your face sad since you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart." And I was very much afraid.

I said to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad when the city of my ancestors' burial site is ruined and her gates are consumed by fire?"

And the king returned from the palace garden to the {banquet hall}, [where] Haman [was] lying prostrate on the couch that Esther [was] on, and the king said, "Will he also molest the queen with me in the house?" As the words went from the king's mouth they covered Haman's face.

But, on the other hand, stretch out your hand and touch {all that belongs to him} [and see] {whether} he will {curse} you to your face."

But stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, [and see] {whether} he will {curse} you to your face."

And a spirit glided before my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.

"{Therefore} be prepared, turn to me, and I surely will not lie to your face.

The earth is given into [the] hand of [the] wicked; he covers the face of its judge-- if [it is] not [he], then who [is] it?

surely then you will lift up your face without blemish, and you will be firmly established and will not fear.

"Only you must not do [these] two [things] to me; then I will not hide from your face:

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

"Because he has covered his face with his fat and has gathered fat upon [his] loins,

Thus you shriveled me up; it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.

My face is red because of weeping, and deep shadows [are] on my eyelids,

Who denounces his way to his face? And who repays him [for what] he has done?

And [the] eye of [the] adulterer waits for dusk, saying, {'No eye will see me,'} and he places a covering [on his] face.

[He] covers [the] face of [the] full moon; [he] spreads his cloud over it.

{He has described a circle} on [the] face of [the] water {between light and darkness}.

I smiled for them [when] they had no confidence [in anything], and they did not extinguish the light of my face.

They abhor me; they keep aloof from me, and they do not withhold spit from my face

He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.

but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides [his] face, and who can behold him? Yet [he is] over a nation and over a person alike,

And {they} turn around by his guidance to accomplish all that he has commanded them on [the] face of {the habitable world}.

Who can open [the] doors of its face? Its teeth all around [are] fearsome.

Many are saying, "Who will show us [something] good?" Lift up over us the light of your face, O Yahweh.

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."

For Yahweh [is] righteous; he loves righteous deeds. [The] upright shall see his face.

How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

[By contrast,] I in righteousness shall see your face. Upon awakening I will be satisfied [seeing] your form.

because he has not despised nor abhorred [the] affliction of [the] afflicted, and has not hid his face from him; but he listened to him when he cried for help.

Such [is the] sort of those who seek him, those who seek your face, even Jacob. Selah

On your behalf my heart says, "Seek my face." Your face, O Yahweh, I do seek.

Do not hide your face from me; do not turn your servant away in anger. You have been my help; do not abandon nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

O Yahweh, by your favor you caused my strong mountain to stand. You hid your face. I was bewildered.

Shine your face upon your servant. Save me by your loyal love.

The face of Yahweh [is] against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from [the] earth.

{All day long} my disgrace [is] before me, and the shame of my face covers me,

Why do you hide your face? [Have] you forgotten our misery and our oppression?

Hide your face from my sins, and all my iniquities blot out.

May God be gracious to us and bless us. May he cause his face to shine toward us, Selah

Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face.

and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.

O God, restore us, and cause your face to shine that we may be saved.

O God [of] hosts, restore us and cause your face to shine that we may be saved.

[It is] burned with fire, cut down. They perish at the rebuke of your face.

O Yahweh God [of] hosts, restore us; cause your face to shine that we may be saved.

Look at our shield, O God, and have regard for the face of your anointed one.

Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh? [Why] do you hide your face from me?

Righteousness and justice [are] the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulness come before your face.

Do not hide your face from me in [the] day [of] my trouble. Incline your ear to me. In the day I call, answer me quickly,

You hide your face, they are terrified. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

You send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of [the] ground.

Make supplication to Yahweh and his might; seek his face continually.

Shine your face on your servant, and teach me your statutes.

For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.

Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I will become like [those] descending to [the] pit.

She took hold of him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him,