77 Bible Verses about Heads

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Judges 5:26

She put out her hand to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and she gave Sisera a blow, crushing his head, wounding and driving through his brow.

Jonah 2:5

The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

Exodus 12:9

Do not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water, but let it be cooked in the oven; its head with its legs and its inside parts.

Leviticus 1:4

And he is to put his hand on the head of the burned offering and it will be taken for him, to take away his sin.

2 Kings 6:25

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

Exodus 22:1

If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

1 Kings 4:23

Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.

2 Chronicles 15:11

And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

2 Chronicles 35:9

And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.

1 Samuel 5:4

And when they got up early on the morning after, Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord; and his head and his hands were broken off on the doorstep; only the base was in its place.

Genesis 40:19

After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds.

Leviticus 13:12

And if the disease comes out all over his skin, from his head to his feet, as far as the priest is able to see,

2 Samuel 14:25

Now in all Israel there was no one so greatly to be praised for his beautiful form as Absalom: from his feet to the crown of his head he was completely beautiful.

Job 2:7

And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

Isaiah 1:6

The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

Habakkuk 3:13

You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah.

John 13:9

Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head.

1 Samuel 9:2

He had a son named Saul, a specially good-looking young man; there was no one better-looking among the children of Israel: he was taller by a head than any other of the people.

1 Samuel 10:23

So they went quickly and made him come out; and when he took his place among the people, he was taller by a head than any of the people.

2 Samuel 1:10

So I put my foot on him and gave him his death-blow, because I was certain that he would not go on living after his fall: and I took the crown from his head and the band from his arm, and I have them here for my lord.

Leviticus 8:9

And on his head he put the head-dress, and in front of the head-dress the plate of gold, the holy crown, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

Joshua 2:19

Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

1 Samuel 25:39

And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.

2 Samuel 1:16

And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.

1 Kings 2:33

So their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed for ever; but for David and his seed and his family and the seat of his kingdom, there will be peace for ever from the Lord.

Ezekiel 9:10

And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.

Ezekiel 33:4-5

Then anyone who, hearing the sound of the horn, does not take note of it, will himself be responsible for his death, if the sword comes and takes him away. On hearing the sound of the horn, he did not take note; his blood will be on him; for if he had taken note his life would have been safe.

1 Kings 8:32

Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving your decision against the wrongdoer, so that punishment for his sins may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.

2 Chronicles 6:23

Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving punishment to the wrongdoer, so that his sin may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.

Nehemiah 4:4

Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

Psalm 7:16

His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

Psalm 140:9

As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

Proverbs 25:22

For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward.

1 Samuel 14:45

And the people said to Saul, Is death to come to Jonathan, the worker of this great salvation for Israel? Let it not be so: by the living Lord, not one hair of his head is to be touched, for he has been working with God today. So the people kept Jonathan from death.

1 Kings 1:52

And Solomon said, If he is seen to be a man of good faith, not a hair of him will be touched; but if any wrongdoing is seen in him, he is to be put to death.

Daniel 3:27

And the captains, the chiefs, and the rulers, and the king's wise men who had come together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had no power, and not a hair of their heads was burned, and their coats were not changed, and there was no smell of fire about them.

Acts 27:34

So I make request to you to take food; for this is for your salvation: not a hair from the head of any of you will come to destruction.

Nehemiah 6:8

Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.

Genesis 49:26

Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers.

Deuteronomy 33:16

The good things of the earth and all its wealth, the good pleasure of him who was seen in the burning tree: may they come on the head of Joseph, on the head of him who was prince among his brothers.

Proverbs 10:6

Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.

Isaiah 35:10

Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

Isaiah 51:11

Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

Numbers 6:9

If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.

Judges 13:5

For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

Judges 16:17

And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man.

1 Samuel 1:11

And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.

Matthew 26:7

There came to him a woman having a bottle of perfume of great price, and she put the perfume on his head when he was seated at table.

Mark 14:3

And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.

1 Corinthians 11:4-7

Every man who takes part in prayer, or gives teaching as a prophet, with his head covered, puts shame on his head. But every woman who does so with her head unveiled, puts shame on her head: for it is the same as if her hair was cut off. For if a woman is not veiled, let her hair be cut off; but if it is a shame to a woman to have her hair cut off, let her be veiled.read more.
For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

Psalm 35:14

My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

Lamentations 2:10

The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.

Isaiah 15:2

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.

Jeremiah 47:5

The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.

Jeremiah 48:37

For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.

Ezekiel 7:18

And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.

Ezekiel 27:30-31

And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust: And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.

Ezekiel 44:20

They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.

Amos 8:10

Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Micah 1:16

Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth before the ark of the Lord till the evening, and all the chiefs of Israel with him, and they put dust on their heads.

1 Samuel 4:12

And a man of Benjamin went running from the fight and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothing out of order and earth on his head.

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Daniel 7:20

And about the ten horns on his head and the other which came up, causing the fall of three; that horn which had eyes, and a mouth saying great things, which seemed to be greater than the other horns.

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Bare Heads

Leviticus 10:6

And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, Do not let your hair be loose, and give no signs of grief; so that death may not overtake you, and his wrath come on all the people; but let there be weeping among your brothers and all the house of Israel for this burning of the Lord's fire.

Covering Heads

1 Corinthians 11:6

For if a woman is not veiled, let her hair be cut off; but if it is a shame to a woman to have her hair cut off, let her be veiled.

Hands On Heads

Jeremiah 2:37

Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.

Heads Of Priestly Households

Nehemiah 12:12

And in the days of Joiakim there were priests, heads of families: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

Lifting Heads

Psalm 27:6

And now my head will be lifted up higher than my haters who are round me: because of this I will make offerings of joy in his tent; I will make a song, truly I will make a song of praise to the Lord.

Removing Heads

Genesis 40:19

After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds.

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