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Forehead

6Greek/Hebrew entries

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Greek G3359 métōpon

Original: μέτωπον

Meaning:
from μετά and ops (the face); the forehead (as opposite the countenance):--forehead.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: the forehead (as opposite the countenance):--forehead.

Greek G3790 ophrŷs

Original: ὀφρῦς

Meaning:
perhaps from ὀπτάνομαι (through the idea of the shading or proximity to the organ of vision); the eye-"brow" or forehead, i.e. (figuratively) the brink of a precipice:--brow.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: the eye-"brow" or forehead, i.e. (figuratively) the brink of a precipice:--brow.

Hebrew H639 ʼaph

Original: אַף

Meaning:
from אָנַף; properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire; anger(-gry), [phrase] before, countenance, face, [phrase] forebearing, forehead, [phrase] (long-) suffering, nose, nostril, snout, [idiom] worthy, wrath.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: anger(-gry), [phrase] before, countenance, face, [phrase] forebearing, forehead, [phrase] (long-) suffering, nose, nostril, snout, [idiom] worthy, wrath.

Hebrew H1371 gibbêach

Original: גִּבֵּחַ

Meaning:
from an unused root meaning to be high (in the forehead); bald in the forehead; forehead bald.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: forehead bald.

Hebrew H1372 gabbachath

Original: גַּבַּחַת

Meaning:
from the same as גִּבֵּחַ; baldness in the forehead; by analogy, a bare spot on the right side of cloth; bald forehead, [idiom] without.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: bald forehead, [idiom] without.

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Hebrew H4696 mêtsach

Original: מֵצַח

Meaning:
from an unused root meaning to be clear, i.e. conspicuous; the forehead (as open and prominent); brow, forehead, [phrase] impudent.

Verses containing this word showing 13 of 13

^{Exodus 28:38} And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD. Open

^{Leviticus 13:41} And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean. Open

^{Leviticus 13:42} And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead. Open

^{Leviticus 13:43} Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh; Open

^{1 Samuel 17:49} And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. Open

^{2 Chronicles 26:19} Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar. Open

^{2 Chronicles 26:20} And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him. Open

^{Jeremiah 3:3} Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. Open

^{Ezekiel 3:8} Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. Open

^{Ezekiel 3:9} As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. Open

^{Ezekiel 16:12} And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. Open

^{Revelation 14:9} And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, Open

^{Revelation 17:5} And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Open

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