'Head' in the Bible

She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” And Herodias replied, “The head of John the Baptist!”

And she rushed back to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter!”

So the king immediately sent for an executioner and commanded him to bring back John’s head. And he went and had John beheaded in the prison,

and brought back his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

Again he sent them another servant, and they [threw stones and] wounded him in the head, and treated him disgracefully.

Have you not even read this Scripture:‘The stone which the builders regarded as unworthy and rejected,This [very stone] has become the chief Cornerstone

While He was in Bethany [as a guest] at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster vial of very costly and precious perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured the perfume over His head.

They kept beating Him on the head with a reed and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing in [mock] homage to Him.