29 Bible Verses about Hair

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Matthew 5:36

neither swear by your head, because you can not make one hair white or black.

1 Corinthians 11:6

For, if a woman is unveiled, let her also be shaven; but, if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

1 Corinthians 11:14

Does not even nature herself teach, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Matthew 10:30

But the very hairs of your head have all been numbered.

Acts 27:34

wherefore, I beseech you to partake of food; for this makes the beginning of your deliverance; for a hair from the head of no one of you shall perish."

John 12:3

Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

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Hair » Worn » Long » By women

Luke 7:38

and standing behind at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and wiped them off with the hair of her head; and she kept kissing His feet, and anointing them with the perfume.

1 Corinthians 11:5-6

But every woman, praying or prophesying with her head unveiled, dishonors her head; for it is one and the same, as if she were shaven. For, if a woman is unveiled, let her also be shaven; but, if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

Hair » Numbered

Matthew 10:30

But the very hairs of your head have all been numbered.

Hair » Worn » Long » By absalom

Hair » Symbolical dividing of

Hair » Short hair

1 Corinthians 11:14

Does not even nature herself teach, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Shekel » Used to weigh » Hair

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Cutting Hair

Acts 18:18

And Paul, abiding after this yet many days with the brethren, having taken leave of them, was sailing away to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shaven his head in Cenchrea; for he had a vow.

Hair Garments

Matthew 3:4

And John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Hair Plucking

Mark 14:65

And some began to spit on Him, and to cover His face, and to buffet Him, and to say to Him, "Prophesy;" and the officers received Him with blows of their hands.

Other References To Hair

John 11:2

And it was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

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