forehead
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 →
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 →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads. (Prophets EZK.3.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- Mum felt my forehead to see if I had a fever. tree →
- He got a bump on his forehead when he hit the door. tree →
- She wiped the sweat off her forehead. tree →
- Harry Potter has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. tree →
- Dad kissed me on the forehead. tree →
- The thermometer beeped when it touched my forehead. tree →
- He wrinkled his forehead as he thought about the problem. tree →
- The baby has curly hair over her forehead. tree →
- All had horns growing on their foreheads. tree →
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.
- The King, relieved, asks the Queen to question the next witness, as it makes his forehead ache.
- It quite makes my forehead ache!»
- A helmet should sit level and low on your forehead, about two fingers above your eyebrows.
- The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand: people press noses and foreheads to share breath, done when invited.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «forehead» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.