Countenance
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Angry
Prov 25:23
23 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Proverbs 25:23 -
Cheerful
Job 29:24; Ps 4:6; 21:6; 44:3; Prov 15:13; 27:17
24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Job 29:246 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Psalms 4:66 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
Psalms 21:63 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.
Psalms 44:313 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 15:1317 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 27:17 -
Fierce
Deut 28:50; Dan 8:23
50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
Deuteronomy 28:5023 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
Daniel 8:23 -
Guilty
Gen 4:5; Isa 3:9
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Genesis 4:59 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Isaiah 3:9 -
Health indicated in
Ps 42:11; 43:5
11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 42:115 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 43:5 -
Pride in
2 Kgs 5:1; Ps 10:4
1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
2 Kings 5:14 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms 10:4 -
Reading of
Gen 31:2, 5
2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
Genesis 31:25 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
Genesis 31:5 -
Sad
1 Sam 1:18; Neh 2:2, 3; Eccl 7:3; Ezek 27:35; Dan 1:15; 5:6
18 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.
1 Samuel 1:182 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 2:23 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?
Nehemiah 2:33 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Ecclesiastes 7:335 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
Ezekiel 27:3515 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.
Daniel 1:156 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Daniel 5:6 -
Transfigured
Ex 34:29–35; 2 Cor 3:7, 13; Luke 9:29
29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. 31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. 32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai. 33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face. 34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Exodus 34:297 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
2 Corinthians 3:713 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
2 Corinthians 3:1329 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
Luke 9:29 - See Face
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
