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μέτωπον
métōpon · Greek · Strong's G3359 · 8 occurrences
The KJV renders 2 different Hebrew and Greek words as “forehead”
What it means
the forehead (as opposite the countenance)
from G3326 (μετά) and ops (the face);
How the KJV renders it
forehead
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“forehead”
also renders ʼaph (H639)
Answers that weigh this word
- Will there be a literal thousand-year reign (the millennium)?
- Is hell eternal conscious torment or annihilation?
- Is the rapture biblical?
- Are the dead conscious, or do they sleep until the resurrection?
- What happens to a person immediately after death?
- When does the resurrection happen, and who is raised?
Where it appears
8 occurrences in the Greek text.
Revelation 7:3 · N-GPN
saying, “Don’t harm the earth, the sea, or the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”
Revelation 9:4 · N-GPN
They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.
Revelation 13:16 · N-ASN
He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands or on their foreheads;
Revelation 14:1 · N-GPN
I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.
Revelation 14:9 · N-GSN
Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
Revelation 17:5 · N-ASN
And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
Revelation 20:4 N-ASNRevelation 22:4 N-GPN
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