Topic
Countenance
47 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 4:5ISBE · Nave Guilty
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
- 1 Samuel 1:18ISBE · Nave Sad
And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
- Nehemiah 2:2ISBE · Nave Sad
Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
- Nehemiah 2:3ISBE · Nave Sad
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
- Job 29:24ISBE · Nave Cheerful
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
- Psalms 4:6ISBE · Nave Cheerful
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
- Psalms 10:4ISBE · Nave Pride in
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
- Psalms 43:5ISBE · Nave Health indicated in
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
- Psalms 44:3ISBE · Nave Cheerful
For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
- Proverbs 15:13ISBE · Nave Cheerful
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
- Proverbs 27:17ISBE · Nave Cheerful
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
- Ecclesiastes 7:3ISBE · Nave Sad
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
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- Ezekiel 27:35 ISBE · Nave Sad
- Daniel 1:15 ISBE · Nave Sad
- Daniel 5:6 ISBE · Nave Sad
- Daniel 8:23 ISBE · Nave Fierce
- Luke 9:29 ISBE · Nave Transfigured
- Genesis 4:6 ISBE
- Genesis 31:2 Nave Reading of
- Genesis 31:5 Nave Reading of
- Exodus 23:3 ISBE
- Exodus 34:29–35 Nave Transfigured
- Leviticus 19:15 ISBE
- Deuteronomy 28:50 Nave Fierce
- 1 Samuel 16:12 ISBE
- 1 Samuel 17:42 ISBE
- 1 Samuel 25:3 ISBE
- 2 Samuel 14:27 ISBE
- 2 Kings 5:1 Nave Pride in
- 2 Kings 8:11 ISBE
- Job 14:20 ISBE
- Psalms 21:6 Nave Cheerful
- Psalms 41:11 ISBE
- Psalms 42:5 ISBE
- Psalms 42:11 Nave Health indicated in
- Psalms 80:16 ISBE
- Psalms 89:15 ISBE
- Psalms 90:8 ISBE
- Proverbs 15:23 ISBE
- Proverbs 25:23 Nave Angry
- Song of Songs 2:14 ISBE
- Isaiah 3:9 Nave Guilty
- Daniel 5:9 ISBE
- Daniel 5:10 ISBE
- Daniel 7:28 ISBE
- 2 Corinthians 3:7 Nave Transfigured
- 2 Corinthians 3:13 Nave Transfigured
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 37 references
koun'-te-nans:
(1) The noun (see also under the word FACE) is the translation of a variety of Hebrew and Greek expressions, panim; prosopon, being the most frequent. Besides these there are found mar'eh, "appearance," "shape," "comeliness," "visage," `ayin, "the eye," to'ar, "appearance," "figure," etc., and Aramaic ziw. To the Oriental the countenance mirrors, even more than to us, the character and feelings of the heart. The countenance (mar'eh) is"fair" (1Sa 17:42; 2Sa 14:27; Da 1:15); in 1Sa 16:12, literally, "fair of eyes"; "comely" (So 2:14); "beautiful" (~to'ar, 1Sa 25:3); "cheerful" (panim, Pr 15:13); "angry" (Pr 15:23); "fierce" (Da 8:23); "troubled" (Eze 27:35); "sad" (1Sa 1:18; Ne 2:2,3; Ec 7:3). The countenance is "sharpened" i.e. made keen (Pr 27:17); it "falls," i.e. looks despondent, disappointed (Ge 4:5,6); is "cast down" (Job 29:24); "changed" (Job 14:20; compare "altered" into glory, Lu 9:29; Da 5:6,9,10; 7:28, Aramaic ziw). To settle one's countenance stedfastly upon a person (2Ki 8:11) is synonymous with staring or gazing at a person. Not infrequently we find compound expressions such as "light of countenance," i.e. favor (Job 29:24; Ps 4:6; 44:3; 89:15; 90:8); "health of countenance" (Ps 41:11; 43:5); "help of countenance" (Ps 42:5); "rebuke of countenance" (Ps 80:16); "pride of countenance" (Hebrew 'aph, literally, "haughty," "lofty nose," Ps 10:4).
(2) As verb (Hebrew hadhar, "to countenance") we find the word in the King James Version of Ex 23:3, where the Revisers translate "Neither shalt thou favor (the King James Version "countenance") a poor man in his cause." Here the meaning seems to be that no distinction of persons shall be made by the judge. See Le 19:15, where, however, a different word is used. There is therefore no need of the emendation proposed by Knobel and accepted by Kautzsch, who would read gadhol, "great," for wedhal, "and the poor" of the text. The Septuagint has penes, "poor."
H. L. E. Luering
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 28 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → Angry Pr 25:23
- → Cheerful Job 29:24; Ps 4:6; 21:6; 44:3; Pr 15:13; 27:17
- → Fierce De 28:50; Da 8:23
- → Guilty Ge 4:5; Isa 3:9
- → Health indicated in Ps 42:11; 43:5
- → Pride in 2Ki 5:1; Ps 10:4
- → Reading of Ge 31:2,5
- → Sad 1Sa 1:18; Ne 2:2,3; Ec 7:3; Eze 27:35; Da 1:15; 5:6
- → Transfigured Ex 34:29-35; 2Co 3:7,13; Lu 9:29
- → See FACE
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.