65 Bible Verses about Hair

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Matthew 5:36

And do not promise by your head, for you cannot even control the hair on your head.

2 Samuel 14:26

From time to time, he used to cut his hair because it became heavy for him. When he cut the hair on his head and weighed it, it weighed five pounds according to the king's standard.

1 Corinthians 11:6

For if the woman were not covered, let her also be shaved. But if it is a shame for a woman to have her head shaved, let her be covered.

1 Corinthians 11:14

Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if men have long hair, it is a shame?

Song of Solomon 5:11

His head is as the finest gold. His locks are like date clusters, bushy and black as a raven.

Song of Solomon 4:1

(The Beloved) You are beautiful my love, you are beautiful. Your eyes behind your veil are like doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead.

Judges 20:16

Besides these, the citizens of Gibeah gathered seven hundred specially chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a strand of hair and never miss.

Genesis 25:25

The first one was reddish. His skin was like a hairy robe, so he was named Esau.

Isaiah 46:4

Even in your old age with gray hair I am he, I am he who will support you. I have made you and I will bear your burden (take care of you). I will sustain (support) (strengthen) you and I will rescue you (keep you safe).

Judges 16:17

So finally he told her the truth: My hair has never been cut, he said: I have been dedicated to God as a Nazirite from the time I was born. I would lose my strength if my hair were cut.

Job 4:15

A spirit passed in front of me. It made my hair stand on end.

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of the smell of perfume, there will be the smell of decay. They will wear ropes instead of belts. They will have baldheads instead of beautiful hair. They will wear sackcloth instead of expensive clothes. Their beauty will be scarred with brand marks.

Ezekiel 44:20

They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long. They must keep the hair on their heads trimmed.

1 Kings 1:52

Solomon replied: If he is loyal, not even a hair on his head will be touched. If he is not, he will die.

Isaiah 3:17

Jehovah will cause sores to appear on the heads of the women of Zion. Jehovah will make their foreheads bare.

Isaiah 7:20

In that day Jehovah will hire the king of Assyria from beyond the Euphrates River to be a razor to shave the hair on your head, the hair on your legs, and even your beard.

Leviticus 13:30

the priest will examine it. If it seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it are yellowish and thin, it is a dreaded skin disease. He will declare you unclean.

Ezekiel 5:1

As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Take and use it as a barber's razor to shave your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.

Numbers 6:5

As long as they are under the Nazirite vow no razor may touch their heads. During the entire time that they are dedicated to Jehovah as Nazirites, they will be holy. They must let their hair grow long.

Psalm 69:4

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I did not take away.

Leviticus 13:3

The priest will examine the sore. If the hairs in it have turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the surrounding skin, it is a dreaded skin disease, and the priest will pronounce you unclean.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners are using up your strength, but you do not realize it. You have become a gray-haired, old man, but you do not realize it.

Acts 27:34

I encourage you to take some food for this is for your safety. Not a hair will perish from the head of any of you.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald. Cut off your hair for the children of your delight! Enlarge your baldness as the eagle. For your children are gone into exile (captivity) from you.

2 Samuel 18:9

Absalom happened to come face to face with some of David's men. He was riding on a mule. The mule went under the tangled branches of a large tree. Absalom's head became caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair when the mule under him ran away.

Ezekiel 8:3

It stretched out what looked like a hand and grabbed me by the hair on my head. In these visions from God, the Spirit carried me between heaven and earth. He took me in vision to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the idol of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was located.

Ezekiel 16:7

I made you numerous like plants of the field. You grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments. Your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.'

John 12:3

Mary took a pound of very precious ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

Psalm 71:18

And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare your strength to this generation, your power to all who are to come.

Psalm 40:12

Countless evils have surrounded me. My sins have caught up with me so that I can no longer see. They outnumber the hairs on my head. I have lost heart (lost strength, courage and motivation).

Daniel 3:27

The satraps, deputies, governors, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men. They saw that the fire had no power upon their bodies. Not a single hair on their head was singed. Neither were their clothes changed and they did not smell like fire.

Judges 16:19

Delilah lulled Samson to sleep in her lap and called a man, who cut off Samson's seven locks of hair. Then she tormented him, for he had lost his strength.

1 Samuel 16:12

Jesse sent for him. He was a handsome, healthy young man, and his eyes sparkled. Jehovah said to Samuel: This is the one. Anoint him!

From Thematic Bible


Hair » Worn » Long » By women

Luke 7:38

Standing by his feet weeping, she wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with the hair of her head. Then she kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of the smell of perfume, there will be the smell of decay. They will wear ropes instead of belts. They will have baldheads instead of beautiful hair. They will wear sackcloth instead of expensive clothes. Their beauty will be scarred with brand marks.

1 Corinthians 11:5-6

But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head. She is the same as if she had her head shaved. For if the woman were not covered, let her also be shaved. But if it is a shame for a woman to have her head shaved, let her be covered.

Hair » Numbered

Hair » Worn » Long » By absalom

2 Samuel 14:26

From time to time, he used to cut his hair because it became heavy for him. When he cut the hair on his head and weighed it, it weighed five pounds according to the king's standard.

Hair » Symbolical dividing of

Ezekiel 5:1-2

As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Take and use it as a barber's razor to shave your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair. You should burn one-third of the hair in the fire at the center of the city when the siege is over. Take one third and strike it with the sword all around the city. The remaining one third you shall scatter to the wind. I will unsheathe a sword behind them.

Hair » Short hair

1 Corinthians 11:14

Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if men have long hair, it is a shame?

Shekel » Used to weigh » Hair

2 Samuel 14:26

From time to time, he used to cut his hair because it became heavy for him. When he cut the hair on his head and weighed it, it weighed five pounds according to the king's standard.

Topics on Hair

Appearance Of Hair

Song of Solomon 4:1

(The Beloved) You are beautiful my love, you are beautiful. Your eyes behind your veil are like doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead.

Black Hair

Leviticus 13:31

If the priest examines you and finds the sore does not appear to be deeper than the surrounding skin, but there are still no healthy hairs in it, he will isolate you for seven days.

Facial Hair

1 Samuel 17:35

I go after it, attack it, and rescue the lamb. If the lion or bear turns on me, I grab it by the throat and beat it to death.

Hair Garments

2 Kings 1:8

He was a hairy man wearing a cloak made of animal skins, tied with a leather belt, they answered. It is Elijah! The king exclaimed.

Hair Plucking

Ezra 9:3

Hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.

Hairs

2 Kings 9:30

Jehu went to Jezreel. Jezebel had news of what happened. Painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.

Hairs Protected

1 Samuel 14:45

But the people said to Saul: Will Jonathan, who won this great victory for Israel, be put to death? No! We promise by the living Jehovah that he will not lose even a hair from his head. What he did today was done with God's help. So the people saved Jonathan from being put to death.

Long Hair

Judges 16:17

So finally he told her the truth: My hair has never been cut, he said: I have been dedicated to God as a Nazirite from the time I was born. I would lose my strength if my hair were cut.

Other References To Hair

Numbers 5:18

The priest will bring the woman into Jehovah's presence and loosen her hair. In her hands he will put the offering used for a confession, that is, the grain offering brought because of the husband's jealousy. The priest will hold the bitter water that can bring a curse in his hands.

The Hair Of The Body

Leviticus 13:3

The priest will examine the sore. If the hairs in it have turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the surrounding skin, it is a dreaded skin disease, and the priest will pronounce you unclean.

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