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# forefront

«forefront» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The very front part of something, the part that faces…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The very front part of something, the part that faces forward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Used for the front of the tent-curtains and the front of the high priest's mitre, where the gold plate was fixed. Interpretation: The gold plate on the mitre front, engraved "Holy to the LORD," is read by tradition as a sign that the high priest's thoughts were to be turned toward God and could atone for the people's offerings.

### examples

- And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. (Torah EXO.26.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#x1)
- And thou shalt put it on a thread of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. (Torah EXO.28.37, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#x2)
- And from the forefront of the gate of the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. (Prophets EZK.40.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#x3)
- Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, a hundred cubits, eastward as also northward. (Prophets EZK.40.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#x4)
- And he wrote in the letter, saying: 'Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.' (Prophets 2SA.11.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#x5)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [And from the forefront of the gate of the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1063/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «forefront» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.