Genesis 1:2

Strong’s #6440, panim. Faces. Always in the plural. It is one of the mystery plural Hebrew words, like mayim (dual-waters) and shamayim (dual-heavens). Some suggest that these words have the characteristic of plurality, as in, there’s a lot of it or many. Some Jewish scholars understand that it does not mean plurality, but multiplicity, i.e. water has many forms such as lakes, rivers, pools, rain, etc. Let’s see what the Scripture has to reveal to us. There are five allegorical types of faces presented to us in Scripture:

“Ye hypocrites, the faces of the earth and the heaven ye know-how to discern; the time of this one however, how do you not know-how to discern?” Luke 12:56 literal

“In His causing to erect the dual-heavenly-ones, there is myself, in his cutting-in a circle over the faces of the abyss…” Proverbs 8:27 literal

“Send forth your bread over the faces of the dual-water, for in the abounding of the Days you are finding him.” Ecclesiastes 11:1 literal

“and a mist is going up from the Earth and has given drink to the whole of the faces of the Red-one.” Genesis 2:6 literal

“And mighty ones say, the dual water is swarming with a swarming one of the breath of life, and a bird is flying above the earth above the faces of the stamped space of the dual heavenly ones.” Genesis 1:20 RBT Paraphrase