This adjective describes a condition of baldness specifically on the forehead or front part of the head, distinguished from baldness at the back of the head. Levitical law lists various physical conditions that, while not making someone ritually unclean, disqualified a priest from offering sacrifices at the altar. The law makes careful distinctions between different types of baldness, possibly to distinguish natural conditions from intentional head-shaving practices associated with pagan mourning rituals.