Forehead of man.

forehead

Foreheads are mentioned many times in Scripture.

Marked foreheads

It was a common practice in the ancient Middle East nations to color the forehead or impress on it some distinctive mark as a sign of devotion to some false deity. This is alluded to in Rev. 13:16-17; 14:9; 17:5; 20:4.

“You are the sons of Yahweh your God; you shall not gash yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead. —Deu. 14:1 LSB

Brazen look of a prostitute…

…Yet you had a harlot’s forehead;
You refused to feel dishonor. —Jeremiah 3:3 excerpt

The above verse in the book of Jeremiah is comparing the shameless apostasy and faithlessness of Israel to a harlot.

Ezekiel told to mark certain men’s foreheads

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being done in its midst.” —Ezek. 9:4

Strong foreheads

Like diamond stronger than flint I have made your forehead. Do not be afraid of them —Ezek. 3:9 excerpt

Anti-Christ’s

And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, that they be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, —Rev. 13:16

Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, and he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His rage, and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. —Rev. 14:9-10

…And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their witness of Jesus and because of the word of God, and who also had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. —Rev. 20:4

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144,000 sealed on the forehead

This occurs during The Great Tribulation.

Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out… saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the slaves of our God on their foreheads.” And they were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.—Rev. 7:2-4 excerpt

Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads. —Revelation 13:16

New Jerusalem

Then he showed me a river of the water of life… in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His slaves will serve Him; and they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. —Rev.22:1-4 excerpt

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Idioms for stubborn

Because I know that you are stiff,
And your neck is an iron sinew
And your forehead bronze, —Isaiah 48:4 LSB

In Ezek. 3:7 KJV the word “impudent” is rightly translated in the Revised King James Version “an hard forehead.” (See also verses 8-9.)

Surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn with a strong forehead and stiff heart. —Ezekiel 3:7 NASB excerpt

Leprosy on forehead

…the leprosy broke out on his forehead… Yahweh had smitten him. —2 Chr. 26:19-20 excerpt

…if his head becomes bald at the front and sides, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean. But if on the bald head or the bald forehead, there occurs a reddish-white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead. Then the priest shall look at him; and if the swelling of the infection is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body, —Lev. 13:41-43 excerpt

Goliath’s death

And David sent his hand down into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. And the stone sank into his forehead, so that he fell on his face to the ground. —1 Sam. 17:49

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Judgment of Moabites

…A star shall come forth from Jacob, a scepter shall rise from Israel, and shall crush through the forehead of Moab —Num. 24:17 excerpt

Bare foreheads

…the Lord will smite the skull of the daughters of Zion with scabs,
And Yahweh will make their foreheads bare. —Isa. 3:17 LSB excerpt

Ezek. 16:12

The “jewel on thy forehead” mentioned in Ezek. 16:12 (Revised King James Version, “a ring upon thy nose”) was in all probability the “nose-ring” (Isa. 3:21).

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