29 Bible Verses about Hair

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Luke 12:7

Nay the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Be not therefore afraid; ye are of more worth than many sparrows.

1 Corinthians 11:6

For if a woman be not covered, she may as well be shorn: but if it be shameful to a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

1 Corinthians 11:14

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a disgrace to him?

Acts 27:34

wherefore I exhort you to take some nourishment, for this is necessary for your safety: for there shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you.

John 12:3

And Mary taking a pound of ointment of spikenard of great value, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped them with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

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Hair » Worn » Long » By women

Luke 7:38

brought an alabaster-box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind Him, weeping, and washed his feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

1 Corinthians 11:5-6

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoureth man her head; for it is even all one as if she were shaved. For if a woman be not covered, she may as well be shorn: but if it be shameful to a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

Hair » Numbered

Luke 12:7

Nay the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Be not therefore afraid; ye are of more worth than many sparrows.

Hair » Worn » Long » By absalom

Hair » Symbolical dividing of

Hair » Short hair

1 Corinthians 11:14

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a disgrace to him?

Shekel » Used to weigh » Hair

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Cutting Hair

Acts 18:18

And after Paul had staid there yet a considerable time, he took leave of the brethren, and sailed from thence to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, after he had shaved his head at Cenchrea; for he had a vow.

Hair Garments

Matthew 3:4

And this John had his clothes of camels hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Hair Plucking

Mark 14:65

And they spit upon Him, and blind-folded Him, and then buffeted Him and said to Him, prophesy who it was: and the officers struck him with their rods.

Other References To Hair

John 11:2

(And it was Mary, that anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

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