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1 S 14» ; (4) Ml head, 2 Ch 20" ; and TplxruTov face, 1 Mac 4". RV changes Lv 8^ ' upon the mitre, even upon his forefront,' into ' upon the mitre, in front' ; and 1 S 14' ' The forefront of the one was situate nortliward ' into ' The one crag rose up on the north.' RV also adds Jos 22" 'in the fore- front of the land of Canaan ' (^•,D-'^v, AV ' over against') ; and Ezk40""' ' And from the forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch' (o^x ■J?'?-'?!! I'lnx-.J lys'!; ';?"''H, AV ' from the face . . . unto the face ').
FOREGO.— Sir 7" ' Forego not a wise and good woman : for her grace is above gold ' (ijl^ d(rr4x« ymaiKii aotpfii xal dyaBrjs, RV ' Forgo not a wise and good wife'). "The Gr. verb occurs elsewhere in LXX only in 8' ' Miss not the discourse of the elders' (RV 'aged'). In NT it is found only in the Pastoral Epistles, 1 Ti 1« (EV ' swerve '), 6-' (EV 'err'), 2 Ti 2" (EV 'err'), and at each occurrence RVm gives 'miss the mark,' which is its lit. meaning (d and arSxas, a mark). Tlie meaning here is almost certainly that suggested by Walil noli separari ab uxore sapiente, ' do not separate yourself from, i.e. do not divorce a wise wife.' And that is probably the meaning of AV, which seems to be a new tr", the earlier Versions having uniformly ' Depart not from a discreet and good woman,'* with tne addition, 'that ie fallen unto thee for thy portion in the fear of the Lord,' after Vulg. quam sortitus es in timore Domini. For in earlier Eng. ' forgo ' had the meaning of forsake, as Cursor Mundi (1340), 13,280, ' Peturand andrew . . . wth o word haue thei ship forgone ' ; and Shaks. Henry VIII. UL ii. 422— ' Crom. O my lord.
Must I thM iftave you ? Must I needs forgo So pood, 9D ncMe, and so true a master ? *
And this sense is still in use poetically, as in Mrs. Browning, Catarina to Camoens, iv. — ' And if they looked up to you.
All the light which has forgone them
Would be gathered back anew.'
The spelling of modem e<iitions of AV is forego, but forgo, which is the spelling of 1611 (' forgoe '), is the correct form. Forego is a different word, and means * to go before,' as Fotherby (1619), Atheom. n. iii. 2. 214, "The cause doth ftlwayea his effect fore-goe.' 'rhe prep, in 'forgo' i3/»r(Ger. ver), not fore, and reverses the meaning of the verb, as in forbid, fordo, forget, forswear, forspent, forspoke. In forbear ftnd forgive it add^ force to the simple verb.
J. Hastings. FOREHEAD (ns?, /j^om-oi').- This word occurs repeatedly in the Bible, both in a literal and in a metaphorical sense. It was upon his forehead that the high priest wore the plate of gold inscribed ' Holy to the Lord' (Ex 2S'«j ; the stone slung by David entered the forehead of Goliath (1 S IT'") ; leprosy broke out in the forehead of Uzziah when he sought to bum incense (2 Ch 26""^). In Jer 3' • a harlot's forehead ' is the type of shamelessness ; in Ezk 3'- *• " the people in their obstinacy are described as ' of an hard forehead,' but the propliet's forehead is to be made hard against them, his determination is to be equal to their own. In Ezk 9'*- a mark is directed to be put on the forehead of the faitliful in Jerusalem. The name for this mark is w tav, a letter (n) which may have boen used in much the same way as a X amongst ourselves (cf. Job 31^, where, however, the sense appears to be somewhat dill'erent ; see Davidson's and Dillmann's notes, ud loc). It is even possible that the reference in Ezk is to practices such as that described in Is 44' ' Another shall mark on his hand. Unto the Lord.' See CUTTIN(;S IN THK FLESH, vol. i. p. SSS*" The.-ic OT passages suggested tlie NT usage (Rev 7' 9* 13" 14'- » 17'20<'22^).
• Kxcept Wyclif (13i>2), ' Wile thou Dot goo •wel fro a wel felende womman, and a good.' VOL. II. — 4
In Ezk 1612, where AV has ' I put a jewel on tliy forehead,' RV gives more correctly ' I put a ring upon thy nose' (iisrSy dij [bni).
For Lv 13"»- (' forehead bald') see Baldness.
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FOREIGNER occurs four times in AV. It is the tr» m E.X 12" of ^yw (RV more accurately 'so- journer'), in Dt 15» and Ob" of nj;, and in Eph 2'" of TTdpoiicoj (RV 'sojourner'). RV sub- stitutes 'foreigner' for AV 'stranger' as tr° of TJJ-I? in Lv 232=, and of njj in Dt 17" 23*' 29'--. Amer. RV makes the same change in Ru 2'", 2 S 15", where the Heb. word is the same.
A cognate term is alien (s) , which occurs in A V of Ex 18» as tr" of -u (RV correctly 'sojourner'), of -gi 'J? in Is 61', and of nn in Dt I4-' (RV 'foreigner'). Job 19", Ps 69», 'La 5-. RV adds Ex 12*, Ezk 44'- 9, Pr 5", where AV has 'stranger,' and Ps 144'-", where AV has 'strange children' (Heb. in all these -gi -s).