# מֵצַח (metsach)

Israeli respelling: me-tsach. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4696. 10 Old Testament occurrences.

the forehead (as open and prominent)

King James renderings: brow, forehead, [phrase] impudent.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/metsach-h4696

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 28:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/28/38) — And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in al…
- [1 Samuel 17:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/49) — And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk int…
- [2 Chronicles 26:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/19) — Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in h…
- [2 Chronicles 26:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/20) — And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out fr…
- [Isaiah 48:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/4) — Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
- [Jeremiah 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/3) — Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ash…
- [Ezekiel 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/7) — But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhea…
- [Ezekiel 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/8) — Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
- [Ezekiel 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/9) — As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious ho…
- [Ezekiel 9:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/9/4) — And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men…