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Forehead
The practice common among Oriental nations of colouring the forehead or impressing on it some distinctive mark as a sign of devotion to some deity is alluded to in Rev 13:16, Rev 13:17; Rev 14:9; Rev 17:5; Rev 20:4.
The “jewel on thy forehead” mentioned in Ezek 16:12 (R.V., “a ring upon thy nose”) was in all probability the “nose-ring” (Isa 3:21).
In Ezek 3:7 the word “impudent” is rightly rendered in the Revised Version “an hard forehead.” (See also ver. 8, 9.)
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
