Original Word: ὀφρῦς, ύος, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: ophrus
Phonetic Spelling: (of-roos')
Definition: an eyebrow
Usage: the brow, a ridge (of a mountain).Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
an eyebrow
NASB Translation
brow (1).

STRONGS NT 3790: ὀφρύς

ὀφρύς, ὀφρύος, ἡ,

1. the eyebrow, so from Homer down.

2. any prominence or projection; as (English the brow) of a mountain (so the Latinsupercilium, Vergil, georg. 1, 108; Hirtius, bell. afr. 58; Livy 27, 18; 34, 29): Luke 4:29 (Homer, Iliad 20, 151; often in Polybius, Plutarch, others).

STRONGS NT 3790a: ὀχετός [ὀχετός, ὀχετου, ὁ,

1. a water-pipe, duct.

2. the intestinal canal: Mark 7:19 WH (rejected) marginal reading (others, ἀφεδρών).]

brow.

Perhaps from optanomai (through the idea of the shading or proximity to the organ of vision); the eye-"brow" or forehead, i.e. (figuratively) the brink of a precipice -- brow.

see GREEK optanomai

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