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Koine Greek wordlink #158621

SR GNT Rev 7:3 μετώπων (metōpōn) ‘of us on the foreheads of them’ Strongs=33590 Lemma=metōpon
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=neuter number=plural
Year=96 AD

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Other uses (3) of identical word form μετώπων (N-GNP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μετώπων’ (N-GNP) is always and only glossed as ‘foreheads’.

Rev 9:4 ‘of god on their foreheads’ SR GNT Rev 9:4 word 34

OET-LV: 4 And it _was _said to _them that neither they _may _injure the grass of _the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, except not/lest the people who not are _having the seal of_ the _god on their foreheads. (REV_9:4)

OET-RV: 4 However the locusts were told that they shouldn’t harm the grass or any green plants or trees, but only those people who didn’t have God’s mark on their foreheads. (REV 9:4)

Rev 14:1 ‘having_been written on the foreheads of them’ SR GNT Rev 14:1 word 36

OET-LV: 14 And I _looked, and see, the lamb having _stood on the Mount of _Siōn/(Tsiyyōn), and with him a_hundred forty four thousands having the name of _him, and the name of _the father of _him, having _been _written on the foreheads of _them. (REV_14:1)

OET-RV: 14 Then I looked and wow, the lamb was standing on Mt. Tsiyyon/Zion, and with him were 144,000 people with his name and the name of his father written on their foreheads. (REV 14:1)

Rev 22:4 ‘of him on the foreheads of them’ SR GNT Rev 22:4 word 13

OET-LV: 4 And they _will _be _seeing the face of _him, and the name of _him on the foreheads of _them. (REV_22:4)

OET-RV: 4 They will see his face, and his name on their foreheads. (REV 22:4)

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

Key: N=noun GNP=genitive,neuter,plural