Word

μέτωπον

métōpon · G3359 · Greek · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

forehead

The front part of the head above the eyes

Examples
Revelation 7:3 saying, “Do not harm the earth, or the sea, or the trees until we have sealed the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads.”
Revelation 9:4 They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
Revelation 13:16 And he causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

6 occurrences in 1 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 6

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὄνομαname 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐπίon 12

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

מֵצַח mêtsach · H4696 · forehead: Direct anatomical equivalent denoting the forehead as the frontal part of the head above the eyes.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Forehead8.16: This lexeme denotes the forehead as a part of the body. Revelation 14:9 warns against anyone who “receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand.”

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μετώπου, τό (μετά, ὤψ 'eye'), from Homer down; the Sept. for מֵצַח (literally, the space…

μετώπου, τό (μετά, ὤψ 'eye'), from Homer down; the Sept. for מֵצַח (literally, the space between the eyes) the forehead: Rev 7:3; Rev 9:4; Rev 13:16; Rev 14:1, Rev 14:9; Rev 17:5; Rev 20:4; Rev 22:4.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Parts of the Body8 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0