Forehead
מֵ֫צַחStrong’s H4696metsach (me-tsach)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Metsach is the Hebrew word usually translated “forehead his”, “on forehead his” and “forehead your”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Brow, forehead
How it's translated
- forehead his 2
- on forehead his 2
- forehead your 2
- forehead of 1
- in forehead his 1
- and forehead your 1
- and forehead of 1
- forehead 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Exodus 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 17:49And 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.
- 2 Chronicles 26:19Then 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.
- 2 Chronicles 26:20And 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.
- Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
- Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
- Ezekiel 3:7But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
Hebrew dictionary
מֵ֫צַח metsach · forehead
brow, forehead
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “forehead” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOREHEAD, noun
for'hed, or rather for'ed.
- The part of the face which extends from the hair on the top of the head to the eyes.
- Impudence; confidence; assurance; audaciousness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.