ofruas

Strong’sG3790

the brow, a ridge

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

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ὀφρῦς, ύος, ἡ,
accusative ὀφρῦν, in late Poets ὀφρύα, Refs 8th c.BC+; but ὀφρῦς (before caesura) Refs 8th c.BC+ may be admitted in late writers: compounds have ῠ, εὔοφρυς, λεύκοφρυς, etc.] (Cf. Sanskrit bhrūs, genitive bhruvas, Slavonic br[ucaron]see[icaron], ORefs 5th c.BC+ brú 'brow'.):—brow, eyebrow, τὸν.. ὑπ᾽ ὀφρύος οὖτα Refs 8th c.BC+; ἡ ὀ. ἡ δεξιά, ἡ ἀριστερά, Refs 8th c.BC+, nodded assent, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἡ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ὀ. νεῦσε nodded to him to do a thing, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀνὰ δ᾽ ὀφρύσι νεῦον ἑκάστῳ made a sign not to do,Refs, in token of grief, τὰς ὀφρῦς ἀνεσπακώς, ὥσπερ τι δεινὸν ἀγγελῶν Refs 5th c.BC+; of pride (compare ὀφρυόομαι), Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐρύσσαιRefs 5th c.BC+ knit the brows, frown, Refs 5th c.BC+, let down or unknit the brow, become calm or cheerful again, Refs 5th c.BC+: the brow was also the seat of smiles and joy, ἀγανᾷ χλοαρὸν γελάσσαις ὀφρύϊ Refs 5th c.BC+; on their physiognomical character, see Refs 4th c.BC+
2 ὀφρῦς alone, scorn, pride, Refs 1st c.AD+
II from like ness of shape, brow of a hill, crag, Refs 8th c.BC+; embankment, ὀ. ἀπότομος Refs 2nd c.BC+; overhanging bank of a river, Refs 1st c.AD+; of the sea, Refs 3rd c.BC+; of a ditch, Refs 1st c.BC+; of the rim of joint-cavities, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of the woodwork enclosing the bore of a torsion-engine, Refs 3rd c.BC+: in Architecture texts, architrave,Refs 5th c.BC+
III a plant, Refs 1st c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

brow1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	ofruas	ofruais
object accusative	ofruan	ofruain
direct address vocative	ofruar	ofruair
of, belonging to genitive	ofruau1×ὀφρύος	ofruaiu
to, for dative	ofrua	ofruai

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+snru—its 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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ofruau“brow”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Luke 4:29… tau polau, kai agala auton heōs ofruau teu oreu epi heu tas polas …… town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the …