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In the context of the Bible, the term "faced" can refer to the act of confronting or encountering a situation, person, or challenge directly. This concept is illustrated in various narratives and teachings throughout Scripture, where individuals are called to face trials, adversaries, or divine encounters with faith and courage.

Facing Trials and Challenges

The Bible frequently addresses the theme of facing trials and challenges, encouraging believers to stand firm in their faith. James 1:2-4 exhorts, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." Here, facing trials is seen as an opportunity for spiritual growth and maturity.

Facing Adversaries

Throughout the Old Testament, God's people often faced adversaries, both physical and spiritual. One notable example is David's confrontation with Goliath. In 1 Samuel 17:45 , David declares to the Philistine giant, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied." David's courage in facing Goliath is rooted in his faith in God, demonstrating that reliance on divine strength is crucial when confronting formidable foes.

Facing Divine Encounters

The Bible also records instances where individuals faced divine encounters, often leading to significant transformation. In Exodus 3:2-6 , Moses encounters God in the burning bush. As he faces this divine presence, God calls him to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. Similarly, in Isaiah 6:1-8 , the prophet Isaiah faces a vision of the Lord seated on a throne, resulting in his commissioning as a prophet. These encounters emphasize the importance of responding to God's call with humility and obedience.

Facing Sin and Repentance

Facing one's own sin and the need for repentance is a recurring theme in Scripture. In Psalm 51:3-4 , David acknowledges his transgressions, stating, "For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight." This act of facing one's sin is essential for seeking God's forgiveness and restoration.

Facing Persecution

The New Testament addresses the reality of facing persecution for one's faith. Jesus warns His disciples in John 15:18-20 , "If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world." Believers are called to face persecution with steadfastness, trusting in God's ultimate justice and reward.

Facing the Future with Hope

Finally, the Bible encourages believers to face the future with hope and confidence in God's promises. In Jeremiah 29:11 , God assures His people, "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." This assurance invites believers to face the uncertainties of life with trust in God's sovereign plan.

In summary, the concept of "faced" in the Bible encompasses a range of experiences, from confronting personal challenges and adversaries to encountering God and His call. Through these experiences, believers are encouraged to rely on God's strength, embrace repentance, endure persecution, and look forward to the future with hope.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (imp. & p. p.) of Face.

2. (a.) Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces; as, smooth-faced, two-faced.

Greek
444. anthropos -- a man, human, mankind
... certain, man. From aner and ops (the countenance; from optanomai); man-faced, ie
A human being -- certain, man. see GREEK aner. see GREEK optanomai. ...
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4659. skuthropos -- with a gloomy look
... 4659 (from , "gloomy" and , "countenance") -- properly, grim-faced, looking sad,
dejected (downcast, ); (figuratively) the that goes with doing God's will in ...
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Strong's Hebrew
6437. panah -- to turn
... 1), clear (3), cleared (1), cleared away (1), considered (1), dawn* (1), dawns
(1), declined (1), declines (1), empty (1), face (2), faced (2), faced* (1 ...
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6440. panim -- face, faces
... 1), east* (6), edge (2), entertained* (1), expected* (1), face (259), face to the
before (2), face you first (1), face before (1), face* (2), faced (6), faced ...
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7989. shallit -- having mastery, domineering
... Word Origin from shalat Definition having mastery, domineering NASB Word Usage
bold-faced (1), has authority (1), ruler (2), rulers (1). ...
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5437. sabab -- to turn about, go around, surround
... 3), come around (1), completely* (1), directed (1), driven (1), encircled (2),
encircling (1), encompass (2), engulfed (2), escaped (1), faced* (2), flows ...
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7218. rosh -- head
... 7), chief (35), chief men (6), chiefs (3), companies (7), company (5), corner (1),
count (1), distant (1), divisions (1), ends (2), every (1), faced* (1), favor ...
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413. el -- to, into, towards
... 4), behind* (2), beside (3), beside* (3), between* (2), carried (1), concerning
(31), corresponding* (1), defied* (1), everywhere* (1), faced (1), facing* (3 ...
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1004. bayith -- a house
... Word Usage armory* (1), beneath (1), Beth-ashbea* (1), Beth-togarmah* (2), between*
(2), boxes (1), buildings (2), daughter (1), dungeon* (2), faced inward (1 ...
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7200. raah -- to see
... 1), display (1), displayed (1), distinguish (1), encountered (1), enjoy (1), enjoy*
(3), examined (1), experience (1), exposed (1), face* (2), faced* (2), find ...
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Library

The Testament of Asher Concerning Two Faces of vice and virtue.
... From wickedness flee away, destroying the devil by your good works; for they that
are double-faced serve not God, but their own lusts, so that they may please ...
/.../the testaments of the twelve patriarchs/x the testament of asher concerning.htm

For what Reason the Worshippers of Janus have Made his Image with ...
... Sometimes Have It Be Seen with Four. But now let the interpretation of
the two-faced image be produced. For they say that it has ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 8 for what reason the.htm

Chapter twenty-three
... be changed. Nevertheless she went back into the pew two or three steps and
faced her. "Felicia ... came in. He rose and faced her. Felicia ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter twenty-three.htm

Chapter three
... walked.". EDWARD NORMAN, editor of the Raymond Daily News, sat in his office
room Monday morning and faced a new world of action. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter three.htm

Further Diplomacy
... Then she raised herself and faced the direction the prince had taken. ... "I give thee
joy, Masanath. Thou hast melted the iron prince.". She rose and faced him. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxvi further diplomacy.htm

To Three Italian Cardinals
... One feels in them all the amazement with which a woman whose native air was the
mystical conception of an infallible Church, faced the realities of the ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/to three italian cardinals.htm

To Simplicianus Then I Went, the Father of Ambrose a Bishop Now in ...
... and not being ashamed of the sacrilegious rites of those proud daemons, whose pride
he had imitated and their rites adopted, he became bold-faced against vanity ...
/.../the confessions of saint augustine/chapter ii to simplicianus then.htm

April the Twenty-Eighth Preparing for Great Encounters
... This young champion of the Lord had won many victories before he faced Goliath. ... He
had known the Lord's power when he faced the bear and the lion. ...
/.../april the twenty-eighth preparing for.htm

The Pious Old Man Rejoices that He Read Plato and the Scriptures ...
... and not being ashamed of the sacrilegious rites of those proud demons, whose pride
he had imitated and their rites adopted, he became bold-faced against vanity ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/chapter ii the pious old man.htm

Ruth, the Gleaner
... They could scarcely believe that this sad, broken-down woman could be the
pleasant-faced, happy girl who had gone away with her husband and boys in the year ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/steedman/the babe in the bulrushes/ruth the gleaner.htm

Thesaurus
Faced (32 Occurrences)
... 1. (imp. & pp) of Face. 2. (a.) Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces; as,
smooth-faced, two-faced. Multi-Version Concordance Faced (32 Occurrences). ...
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Bold-faced (1 Occurrence)
Bold-faced. Bold, Bold-faced. Boldly . Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.)
Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman. ...
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Brazen-faced (2 Occurrences)
Brazen-faced. Brazen, Brazen-faced. Brazier . Multi-Version
Concordance Brazen-faced (2 Occurrences). Ezekiel 2:4 And ...
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Sad-faced (1 Occurrence)
Sad-faced. Sadduk, Sad-faced. Sadly . Multi-Version Concordance
Sad-faced (1 Occurrence). Matthew 6:16 And when you ...
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Stern-faced (1 Occurrence)
Stern-faced. Stern, Stern-faced. Sternly . Multi-Version Concordance
Stern-faced (1 Occurrence). Daniel 8:23 In the ...
/s/stern-faced.htm - 6k

Face (780 Occurrences)
... 19. (vt) To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front
upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park. 20. ...
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Nineveh (23 Occurrences)
... The palace ruins show numerous halls, rooms and passages, many of which were faced
with slabs of coarse alabaster, sculptured in relief with military operations ...
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Borrowing (1 Occurrence)
... If that death was the close of a life so beautiful, so remarkable, so Godlike, we
are faced with an insoluble mystery-the permanent triumph of wrong over right ...
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Sternly (9 Occurrences)

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Stern (8 Occurrences)

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Faced (32 Occurrences)

Acts 25:16
unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against 'him'.
(See NIV)

Romans 4:19
Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
(See NIV)

Revelation 12:11
They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
(See NAS)

Genesis 23:17
So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
(See NAS)

Exodus 37:9
And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover were the faces of the cherubim.
(See NIV)

Numbers 8:3
And Aaron doth so; over-against the face of the candlestick he hath caused its lights to go up, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
(See NIV)

1 Kings 8:14
And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel; and all the congregation of Israel stood.
(See NAS RSV)

2 Kings 14:11
But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 23:29
In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 6:3
And the king turned his face, and blessed all the congregation of Israel; and all the congregation of Israel stood.
(See NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 25:21
So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 8:3
He read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.
(See NIV)

Esther 9:26
Therefore they called these days " Purim, " from the word "Pur." Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,
(See RSV)

Job 31:23
For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
(See RSV)

Ezekiel 1:17
When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 10:11
When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 11:1
And lift me up doth a spirit, and it bringeth me in unto the east gate of the house of Jehovah, that is facing the east, and lo, at the opening of the gate twenty and five men, and I see in their midst Jaazaniah son of Azzur, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, heads of the people.
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 40:6
Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 40:9
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.
(See NAS NIV)

Ezekiel 40:16
There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around inward; and on each post were palm trees.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 40:17
Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty chambers were on the pavement.
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 40:20
The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured its length and its breadth.
(See NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 40:31
The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
(See RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 40:34
The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
(See RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 40:37
The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
(See RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 42:2
Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 42:3
Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 42:15
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all around.
(See NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 46:19
Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north: and behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward.
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 47:1
And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Zephaniah 3:15
Jehovah hath turned aside thy judgments, He hath faced thine enemy, The king of Israel, Jehovah, 'is' in thy midst, Thou seest evil no more.
(YLT)

Malachi 3:2
But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
(BBE)

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