Cases of word usage

1) an inscription on a coin, statue etc; a short quotation at the beginning of a book or chapter (epigraph)

2) a word or words printed at the top of a chapter or newspaper article to show the subject of what follows (heading)

3) (a form of) writing arranged in lines, each with a pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables; one of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible (verse)