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Koine Greek wordlink #162321

SR GNT Rev 14:9 μετώπου (metōpou) ‘a mark on the forehead of him or on’ Strongs=33590 Lemma=metōpon
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=neuter number=singular
Year=96 AD

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Only use of identical word form μετώπου (N-GNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μετώπου’ (N-GNS) is always and only glossed as ‘forehead’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘metōpon’ have 2 different glosses: ‘forehead’, ‘foreheads’.

Greek words (3) other than μετώπου (N-GNS) with a gloss related to ‘forehead’

REV 13:16 μέτωπον (metōpon) N-ANS ‘or on the forehead of them’ SR GNT Rev 13:16 word 41

OET-LV: 16 And it _is _making all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that they _may _give to _them a_mark on the hand of _them the right, or on the forehead of _them, (REV_13:16)

OET-RV: 16 and it also required each person, whether important or not, and whether rich or poor, free or slave, to have a mark on their right hand or on their forehead. (REV 13:16)

REV 17:5 μέτωπον (metōpon) N-ANS ‘and on the forehead of her was a name having_been written’ SR GNT Rev 17:5 word 4

OET-LV: 5 and on the forehead of _her was a_name having _been _written: Mystery Babulōn/(Bāⱱel? ) the great, the mother of _the prostitutes, and of _the abominations of _the earth. (REV_17:5)

OET-RV: 5 and a name was written on her forehead. The name was a mystery: ‘Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and the Abominations of the Earth.’ (REV 17:5)

REV 20:4 μέτωπον (metōpon) N-ANS ‘mark on their forehead and on the’ SR GNT Rev 20:4 word 51

OET-LV: 4 And I _saw thrones, and they _sat _down on them, and judgement was _given to _them, and the souls of _the ones having _been _beheaded because _of the testimony of_Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa), and because _of the message of_ the _god, and whoever neither prostrated before _the wild _animal, nor the image of _him, and not took the mark on their forehead, and on the hand of _them, and they _lived and reigned with the for_a_Thousand chosen _one /messiah years. (REV_20:4)

OET-RV: 4 I saw thrones with people sitting on them and they were given the responsibility of judging both the souls of the ones who’d been beheaded for believing Yeshua’s and God’s message, and those who didn’t worship the animal or his image and didn’t receive the mark on their hand or forehead. And they lived and reigned with the messiah for a thousand years. (REV 20:4)

Key: N=noun ANS=accusative,neuter,singular GNS=genitive,neuter,singular