16 Bible Verses about Beards
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“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.
So he told her all that was in his heart and said to her, “A razor has never come on my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will leave me and I will become weak and be like any other man.”
So he disguised his sanity before them, and acted insanely in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down into his beard.
Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
It is like the precious oil upon the head,
Coming down upon the beard,
Even Aaron’s beard,
Coming down upon the edge of his robes.
For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.
They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.
that eighty men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria with their beards shaved off and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed, having grain offerings and incense in their hands to bring to the house of the Lord.
When I heard about this matter, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled some of the hair from my head and my beard, and sat down appalled.
It will be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in water and be clean.
So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them away. When they told it to David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”
So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved them and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them away. Then certain persons went and told David about the men. And he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”
In that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.
I gave My back to those who strike Me,
And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard;
I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.
You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.
They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.
From Thematic Bible
Beards » Shaving, illustrative of severe judgments
In that day the Lord will
“As for you, son of man, take a
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is
Beards » Corners of, not to be marred for the dead
Beards » Shaving of, a great offence
So Hanun took David’s servants and
Now when the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 men. When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army, the mighty men.
Beards » Subject to leprosy
"Now if a man or woman has an infection on the head or on the beard, then the priest shall look at the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and there is thin yellowish hair in it, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scale, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
Beards » In affliction » Was neglected and untrimmed
Then
Beards » In affliction » Was clipped
For
Beards » Dribbling on, a sign of derangement
So he
Beards » Of the healed leper to be shaved
It will be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his
Beards » In affliction » Was shorn
that eighty men
Beards » Laying hold of, a token of respect
Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” And
Beards » The jews never appeared without
When they told it to David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “
Beards » Plucking of, a sign of scorn
And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard;
I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.
Beards » Worn even by the priests
Coming down upon the beard,
Even Aaron’s beard,
Coming down upon the
Beards » In affliction » Sometimes plucked out
When I heard about this matter, I
Leprosy » Parts affected by » Beards
then the priest shall look at the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and there is thin yellowish hair in it, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scale, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.