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# forefront

noun

«forefront» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

Used for the front of the tent-curtains and the front of the high priest's mitre, where the gold plate was fixed.

**Interpretation.** The gold plate on the mitre front, engraved "Holy to the LORD," is read by tradition as a sign that the high priest's thoughts were to be turned toward God and could atone for the people's offerings.

### Meaning

The very front part of something, the part that faces forward. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#m1)

### Examples

- And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. (Torah EXO.26.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#x1)
- And thou shalt put it on a thread of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. (Torah EXO.28.37, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#x2)
- And from the forefront of the gate of the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. (Prophets EZK.40.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#x3)
- Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, a hundred cubits, eastward as also northward. (Prophets EZK.40.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#x4)
- And he wrote in the letter, saying: 'Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.' (Prophets 2SA.11.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/#x5)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «forefront» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forefront/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«forefront» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/forefront.html) on Mova free.