[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/forehead.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / forehead [← F](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/F/) # forehead «forehead» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the part of your face above your eyes and below your hair** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (a forehead, foreheads) ### meaning for a pupil Your forehead is the part of your face above your eyes and below your hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#m1) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it is the front of the head where a skin disease called leprosy might appear. Hair loss there did not make a person unclean. The prophets also use it for boldness: a "hard" forehead means a stubborn or shameless face, or a firm and brave one. Interpretation: The law of the priest examining skin signs is read by tradition as a rule of ritual purity, not a medical one. Only the priest could declare a person clean or unclean. God makes Ezekiel's forehead hard as a diamond so he can face a rebellious people, while Jeremiah uses "a harlot's forehead" for shamelessness. In the primary lessons: In health and everyday life: people feel a child's forehead to check for a fever (a hot forehead can mean a temperature); some thermometers are pointed at the forehead. Faces show feelings: a wrinkled forehead can show worry or thinking. In stories, «sweat on his forehead» shows heat, fear or hard work. Phrases: «touch your forehead», «a bump on the forehead», «wipe your forehead», «a kiss on the forehead». ### examples - And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean. (Torah LEV.13.41, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x1) - But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead. (Torah LEV.13.42, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x2) - Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, (Torah LEV.13.43, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x3) - Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads. (Prophets EZK.3.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x4) - Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. (Prophets JER.3.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x5) - As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.' (Prophets EZK.3.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x6) - Mum felt my forehead to see if I had a fever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x7) - He got a bump on his forehead when he hit the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x8) - She wiped the sweat off her forehead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x9) - Harry Potter has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x10) - Dad kissed me on the forehead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x11) - The thermometer beeped when it touched my forehead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x12) - He wrinkled his forehead as he thought about the problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x13) - The baby has curly hair over her forehead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x14) - All had horns growing on their foreheads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/#x15) ### note Spelling: «fore» (front) + «head». Pronunciation: many people say «FOR-head», others «FOR-id»; both are fine. Countable: «a forehead», plural «foreheads». ### In the corpora - [Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.49/) - [The King, relieved, asks the Queen to question the next witness, as it makes his forehead ache.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/12/) - [It quite makes my forehead ache!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/33/) - [A helmet should sit level and low on your forehead, about two fingers above your eyebrows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/8/) - [The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand: people press noses and foreheads to share breath, done when invited.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/10/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «forehead» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forehead/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.