12 Bible Verses about Covering Heads

For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it be shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.

And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar his sons, Your heads shall ye not uncover, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come on all the assembly; but your brethren, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which Jehovah hath kindled.

And as to the leper in whom the sore is, his garments shall be rent, and his head shall be uncovered, and he shall put a covering on his beard, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean!

And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side, and they fell down together. And that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is by Gibeon.

And Absalom found himself in the presence of David's servants. And Absalom was riding upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of the great terebinth, and his head caught in the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

Every man praying or prophesying, having anything on his head, puts his head to shame.

For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved woman.

Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?

But woman, if she have long hair, it is glory to her; for the long hair is given to her in lieu of a veil.