No. 847 in Hebrew
פני
The Hebrew word "פני" means "my face" or "the face of" (in context, depending on usage).
In a sentence
בבקשה לשטוף את פני כאשר אתה מסיים.
Please wash my face when you finish.
Here, "פני" refers to one's own face in the first person possessive form.
הם הביטו בפני במקום לענות לשאלתי.
They looked at my face instead of answering my question.
Here, "פני" is used to denote looking at the speaker's face specifically in the first person possessive form.
השמש זרחה על פני השדות הירוקים.
The sun shone upon the green fields.
In this sentence, "פני" signifies 'the surface of' and gives a poetic description of the fields.
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