Forepart

Forepart - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

FO'REPART, n.

1. The part first in time; as the forepart of the day or week.

2. The part most advanced in place; the anterior part; as the forepart of any moving body.

3. The beginning; as the forepart of a series.

for'-part: The translation of panim, "face" (Ex 28:27; 39:20; 1Ki 6:20, the Revised Version (British and American) "within"; Eze 42:7, the Revised Version (British and American) "before"), and of prora, the forward part of a ship, the prow (Ac 27:41, "the forepart stuck fast," the Revised Version (British and American) "the foreship struck").

ARV has "its forepart into" for "with his face towards" (Joe 2:20 margin "with its forepart"); "in the forepart thereof" for "before it" (Ex 28:25; 39:18).