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noun · feminine

ofruas

Greekὀφρῦς (ofrus)

Strong’sG3790

the brow, a ridge

stem ofru-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

brow

What it means

ὀφρύς, -ύος, ἡ,

[in LXX: Le 14:9 (עַיִן גּב)*;]

an eyebrow, the brow of a hill: Lk 4:29.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3790 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidof-roos'

the eye-"brow" or forehead, i.e. (figuratively) the brink of a precipice

Fromperhaps from G3700 (through the idea of the shading or proximity to the organ of vision);

King Jamesbrow.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeofruasofruais
object accusativeofruanofruain
direct address vocativeofruarofruair
of, belonging to genitiveofruauὀφρύοςofruaiu
to, for dativeofruaofruai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
ofrustem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

ofrua is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ofruau“brow”of, belonging togenitive singular

Luke 4:29“brow”kai anistanaratois ekballala auton exō tau politau, kai agala auton heōs ofruau teu oreu epi heu tas politas oikodomitelē autoiu, hōste katakrēmnizara auton;They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.