Lest
פֶּן־Strong’s H6435pen
Appears in 125 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pen is the Hebrew word usually translated “lest”. It appears in 125 verses of the Old Testament.
“But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.”
Meaning
- Lest, not, beware lest
- Lest
How it's translated
- lest 128
- and lest 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 24
- Genesis 17
- Proverbs 17
- Exodus 12
- Psalms 9
- 1 Samuel 7
20 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 3:22And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
- Genesis 11:4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- Genesis 19:15And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
- Genesis 19:17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
- Genesis 19:19Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
- Genesis 24:6And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
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Hebrew dictionary
פֶּן־ pen · lest
conj 1) lest, not, beware lest adv 2) lest
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lest” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEST, conjunction
That not; for fear that.
- “Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die” Genesis 3:3“Sin no more, lest a worse thing come to thee” John 5:14
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.