12 Bible Verses about Covering Heads

For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.

"The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!'

Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

They caught everyone his fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: therefore that place was called Helkath Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.