Thematic Bible: Head


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Those who passed by were yelling insults at Him, shaking their heads Verse ConceptsGesturesShaking The HeadInsulting ChristAbusenagging

This is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion
despises you and scorns you:
Daughter Jerusalem
shakes her head behind your back.
Verse ConceptsdaughtersVirgin


I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers;
when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.
Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Prophecies OfBeing ReprovedMessianic Prophecies




Dibon went up to its temple
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba.
Every head is shaved;
every beard is cut off.
Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessBeardsHeadsHigh PlacesKnives

On that day the Lord God of Hosts
called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.
Verse ConceptsGesturesBaldness, UnnaturalBaldnessHairsMourning

Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair
in sorrow for your precious children;
make yourselves as bald as an eagle,
for they have been taken from you into exile.
Verse ConceptsBaldnessHairsHeadsKnivesMourningBarbersBirds, Types Of BirdsEaglesExile In ProspectHair

Instead of perfume there will be a stench;
instead of a belt, a rope;
instead of beautifully styled hair, baldness;
instead of fine clothes, sackcloth;
instead of beauty, branding.
Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseClothHairsSackcloth And AshesSmellsPeople RottingFragranceMarks On PeopleAppearance Of HairNo BeautyWomen's BeautyHairmakeupbranding

They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to spread the good news in the temples of their idols and among the people. Verse ConceptsBeheadingPeople Stripping PeoplePeople Stripping OffSkullsGood News

She reached for a tent peg,
her right hand, for a workman’s mallet.
Then she hammered Sisera—
she crushed his head;
she shattered and pierced his temple.
Verse ConceptsHeadsHandsPegsSharp ToolsKilling Named Individuals

David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword, pulled it from its sheath, and used it to kill him. Then he cut off his head. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they ran. Verse ConceptsSwordsDisfigurementChampionsBeheadingIndividuals RunningSkullsPeoples Who Fledheroes

But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since that is one and the same as having her head shaved. Verse ConceptsWomenCovering HeadsBare HeadsWoman's PlaceWomen's Roles


and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”

The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself. Verse ConceptsCoveringVeilsMeeting PeopleWho Is This?The Brides Wedding Dress

But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since that is one and the same as having her head shaved. Verse ConceptsWomenCovering HeadsBare HeadsWoman's PlaceWomen's Roles


“The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the garments, must not dishevel his hair or tear his garments. Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtRankConsecrationBare HeadsAnointing PriestsPriests GarmentsNot Tearing ClothesAccompaniments Of MourningRivers


Let your clothes be white all the time, and never let oil be lacking on your head. Verse ConceptsWhite And Bright ClothesAnointing OneselfWhite ClothsGarmentsBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Life

Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long-sleeved garment she was wearing. She put her hand on her head and went away crying out. Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesClothing, Tearing OfAshesWeepingFine ClothesThose Who Tore ClothesAshes Of Humiliation

Moreover, you will be led out from here
with your hands on your head
since the Lord has rejected those you trust;
you will not succeed even with their help.
Verse ConceptsRejecting PeopleHands On HeadsTrusting Other PeopleNot Prospering

Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Verse ConceptsHeadsCovering The MouthAbusive MarriagesPursuing ViolenceGod Blesses

The blessings of your father excel
the blessings of my ancestors
and the bounty of the eternal hills.
May they rest on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the prince of his brothers.
Verse ConceptsHeadsHillsPrincesEternal WorldBlessed By God

When they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Skull Place), Verse ConceptsCalvarySkullsInterpreting LanguageBurying placesThe Crosscrucifixion

But when they went out to bury her, they did not find anything but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands. Verse ConceptsSkullsCorpses Of Other Peoplejezebel

David put his hand in the bag, took out a stone, slung it, and hit the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground. Verse ConceptsForeheadsThrowing StonesSlinging Stones

“Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,” the Lord said to him, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable practices committed in it.” Verse ConceptsForeheadsSealsSorrowUnhappinessMarks On PeopleRepenting Of AbominationsStress And Hard Times

Then Joseph took them from his father’s knees and bowed with his face to the ground. Verse ConceptsKnees

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard about it, so she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from the window. Verse ConceptsBad InfluenceFacesHairsCosmeticsLooking Through Windowsartistsjezebelmakeup

Wherever people live—or wild animals, or birds of the air—He has handed them over to you and made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold. Verse ConceptsAnimal LifeGiven Into One's HandsRelation Of Animals To ManBirds

Samuel continued, “Although you once considered yourself unimportant, have you not become the leader of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel Verse ConceptsHeadshipKingsSmallnessTimidityAnointing KingsI Am Unimportant

David was climbing the slope of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he ascended. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. Each of the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they ascended. Verse ConceptsBarefeetHead coveringSelf PitySuffering, Emotional Aspects OfVeilsWeepingShoes

Then Mordecai returned to the King’s Gate, but Haman, overwhelmed, hurried off for home with his head covered. Verse ConceptsCovering HeadsSitting In The GatewayPeople Mourning CatastropheGod's TimingGods Timing

the Lord will put scabs on the heads
of the daughters of Zion,
and the Lord will shave their foreheads bare.
Verse ConceptsBaldnessHairsGod Stripping PeopleBlemished PeopleSpiritual crownsWomen's BeautyHaircrownsmakeupwomanzionscars

The blessings of your father excel
the blessings of my ancestors
and the bounty of the eternal hills.
May they rest on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the prince of his brothers.
Verse ConceptsHeadsHillsPrincesEternal WorldBlessed By God

Then the man bowed down, worshiped the Lord, Verse ConceptsBowingAttitudes, in prayerBowing Heads Before God

The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had paid attention to them and that He had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped. Verse ConceptsBowingAttitudes, in prayerWorship, Reasons ForBowing Heads Before GodBelieving In GodGod Paid Attention To ThemOthers Believing In GodWorshipping God

yet he said to Daniel, “My lord the king assigned your food and drink. I’m afraid of what would happen if he saw your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age. You would endanger my life with the king.” Verse ConceptsCountenance

David replied to Achish, “Good, you will find out what your servant can do.”

So Achish said to David, “Very well, I will appoint you as my permanent bodyguard.” Verse ConceptsGuards

For troubles without number have surrounded me;
my sins have overtaken me; I am unable to see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,
and my courage leaves me.
Verse ConceptsAn Innumerable NumberGuilty ConsciencesDespair, Description OfNumber Of HairsHair

But his hair began to grow back after it had been shaved. Verse ConceptsReinstatementLong HairHair GrowingGrowingHair

In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand the way you used to when you were his cupbearer. Verse ConceptsReinstatementRestorationLifting HeadsReinstating People

Then my head will be high
above my enemies around me;
I will offer sacrifices in His tent with shouts of joy.
I will sing and make music to the Lord.
Verse ConceptsMusicSacrifice, In OtThankfulnessWorship, Elements OfGod Lifting PeopleLifting HeadsI Will Sing Praises

Why do you want more beatings?
Why do you keep on rebelling?
The whole head is hurt,
and the whole heart is sick.
Verse ConceptsSinful HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedRebellion Against God, Shown InOther References To The HeartPersistence

Suddenly he complained to his father, “My head! My head!”

His father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.” Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsPeople Carrying Live PeopleDeath Of A Motherhurting

From the sole of the foot even to the head,
no spot is uninjured
wounds, welts, and festering sores
not cleansed, bandaged,
or soothed with oil.
Verse ConceptsBruisesAnointing, Medical PurposedoctorsBoils Or UlcersHeadsHealingMedicineOilOintmentHoly Spirit, Types OfDisfigurement Of SinWoundsscars

He announced, “May God punish me and do so severely if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.” Verse ConceptsRemoving HeadsKilling ProphetsSkulls

You have lifted up my horn
like that of a wild ox;
I have been anointed with oil.
Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomAnointing With OilGuestsHornsHorns VictoriousWild OxAnointed By GodUnicorns



But when these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near!” Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerBeginningRedemption, In NtStandingBeginning Of SalvationLifting HeadsNear The Time GenerallyImminenceRedemptiondeliverancerelentless

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell before the ark of the Lord with his face to the ground until evening, as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads. Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesArk Of The Covenant, FunctionEveningClothing, Tearing OfHeadsProstrationSprinklingHumility, Examples OfDust On The HeadThose Who Tore Clothes

When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head. Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative UseRobesSprinklingTearing Of ClothesWeepingSeeing At A DistanceDust On The HeadNot Recognising PeopleThose Who Tore Clothes

So the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” Or again, the head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” Verse ConceptsUniquenessMan's NeedsEyesWomen's RolesNot Being AloneThe Bodyconnection


"If a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald, but he is clean. Or if he loses the hair at his hairline, he is bald on his forehead, but he is clean.

But if there is a reddish-white infection on the bald head or forehead, it is a skin disease breaking out on his head or forehead. The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white, like the appearance of a skin disease on his body, the man is afflicted with a skin disease; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; the infection is on his head.


“The person afflicted with an infectious skin disease is to have his clothes torn and his hair hanging loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’ Verse ConceptsCovering The MouthPurity, Nature OfVeilsQuarantiningCovering HeadsFacial Hair

While he was sleeping from exhaustion, Heber's wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She hammered the peg into his temple and drove it into the ground, and he died. When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, "Come and I will show you the man you are looking for." So he went in with her, and there was Sisera lying dead with a tent peg through his temple!

So the Lord cut off Israel's head and tail, palm branch and reed in a single day. The head is the elder, the honored one; the tail is the prophet, the lying teacher.


Then the steward said, “May you be well. Don’t be afraid. Your God and the God of your father must have put treasure in your bags. I received your money.” Then he brought Simeon out to them. Verse ConceptsPeople Set Free By PeopleGod Gives Wealth


Neither should you swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black. Verse ConceptsBlackWhiteWhite HairBlack HairOne Material ThingAppearance Of HairWorryingColorSwearingHair

Surely God crushes the heads of His enemies,
the hairy head of one who goes on in his guilty acts.
Verse ConceptsGod KillingAppearance Of HairGod KillsJesus Destroying His EnemiesEnemy Attackscrownscrushes

Lord God, my strong Savior,
You shield my head on the day of battle.
Verse ConceptsShieldsGod's Salvation Made KnownStrength In BattleWarBattle

the Lord will put scabs on the heads
of the daughters of Zion,
and the Lord will shave their foreheads bare.
Verse ConceptsBaldnessHairsGod Stripping PeopleBlemished PeopleSpiritual crownsWomen's BeautyHaircrownsmakeupwomanzionscars

What is left of the oil in the priest’s palm he is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed. In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the Lord. Verse ConceptsAnointed By PeoplePriests Atoning

What is left of the oil in the priest’s palm he is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed to make atonement for him before the Lord. Verse ConceptsAnointed By PeoplePriests Atoning

“You must not cut his hair throughout the time of his vow of consecration. He must be holy until the time is completed during which he consecrates himself to the Lord; he is to let the hair of his head grow long. Verse ConceptsHairsShavingRazorsLong ThingsCutting HairDedicationHairdreadlocks

The head of Aram is Damascus,
the head of Damascus is Rezin
(within 65 years
Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people),
Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards DamascusPeople Passing Away50 To 70 YearsNorthern Kingdom Of Israelsyriadamascus

See how Your enemies make an uproar;
those who hate You have acted arrogantly.
Verse ConceptsHating God

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped, Verse ConceptsMantlesClothing, Tearing OfBarbersBaldnessBereavement, Experience OfHairsShavingTearing Of ClothesDressThose Who Tore Clothes

Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay for them to get their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that what they were told about you amounts to nothing, but that you yourself are also careful about observing the law. Verse ConceptsShavingPurifying OneselfPaying For GoodsKeep The Commandments!

the Lord will put scabs on the heads
of the daughters of Zion,
and the Lord will shave their foreheads bare.
Verse ConceptsBaldnessHairsGod Stripping PeopleBlemished PeopleSpiritual crownsWomen's BeautyHaircrownsmakeupwomanzionscars


His servants said to him, "Consider this: we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are kings [who show] special kindness. So let's put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and let's go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life." So they dressed with sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, went to the king of Israel, and said, "Your servant Ben-hadad says, 'Please spare my life.' " So he said, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."

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