77 Bible Verses about Heads

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Judges 5:26

She put her hand to the peg, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; she hammered Sisera; she smashed his head, she pierced and struck through his temple.

Jonah 2:5

Waters encompassed me, even to the soul; the depth closed around me; the seaweed was bound to my head.

Exodus 12:9

Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inward parts.

Leviticus 1:4

And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering. And it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

2 Kings 6:25

And there was a great famine in Samaria. And, behold, they besieged it until an ass's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five silver pieces.

Exodus 22:1

If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

1 Kings 4:23

ten fat oxen and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fattened fowl.

2 Chronicles 15:11

And they offered to Jehovah in that day part of the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

2 Chronicles 35:9

And Conaniah, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for Passover offerings five thousand sheep and five hundred oxen.

1 Samuel 5:4

And when they arose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah. And the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands, were cut off upon the threshold. Only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

Genesis 40:19

Yet within three days Pharaoh shall lift up your head from off you, and shall hang you on a tree. And the birds shall eat your flesh from off you.

Leviticus 13:12

And if a leprosy breaks out greatly on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one who has the plague from his head even to his foot, to all that appears to the eyes of the priest,

2 Samuel 14:25

But in all Israel there was not a man handsome like Absalom. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

Job 2:7

And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah and struck Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; only a wound and a stripe and a fresh blow; they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with oil.

Habakkuk 3:13

You went forth for the salvation of Your people, for salvation with Your anointed. You struck the head from the house of the wicked, to bare the foundation to the neck. Selah.

John 13:9

Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and head.

1 Samuel 9:2

And he had a son named Saul, a young and handsome one. And there was not a man among the sons of Israel more handsome than he, being taller than any of the people from his shoulder and upward.

1 Samuel 10:23

And they ran and brought him from there. And when he stood among the people, he was taller than all of the people from the shoulders and upward.

2 Samuel 1:10

And I stood over him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown on his head, and the bracelet on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.

Leviticus 8:9

And he put the miter on his head. Also he put the golden plate, the holy crown, on the miter, on his forehead, even as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Joshua 2:19

And it shall be, whoever shall go out of the doors of your house, his blood shall be on his head, and we will be blameless. And whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is on him.

1 Samuel 25:39

And David heard that Nabal had died, and he said, Blessed is Jehovah who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil. For Jehovah has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head. And David sent and spoke with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife.

2 Samuel 1:16

And David said to him, Your blood be upon your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain Jehovah's anointed.

1 Kings 2:33

Yea, He shall turn back their blood on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever. But on David, and on his seed, and on his house, and on his throne, there shall be peace forever from Jehovah.

Ezekiel 9:10

And even I, My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will put their way on their head.

Ezekiel 33:4-5

then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword does come and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning. His blood shall be on himself. But he who takes warning shall deliver his soul.

1 Kings 8:32

then hear in Heaven, and do, and judge Your servants, to declare the wicked to be wicked, to bring his way on his head, and to declare the righteous to be righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

2 Chronicles 6:23

then hear from Heaven, and do, and judge Your servants by repaying the wicked, by bringing his way back on his own head, and by justifying the righteous, by giving to him according to his righteousness.

Nehemiah 4:4

Oh our God, hear, for we are despised. And turn their curse upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity.

Psalm 7:16

His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violence shall come on his own crown.

Psalm 140:9

As for the head of those around me, let the evil of their own lips cover them.

1 Samuel 14:45

And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked out this great salvation in Israel? Far be it! As Jehovah lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, so that he did not die.

1 Kings 1:52

And Solomon said, If he becomes a son of virtue, not a hair of his head shall fall to the earth. But if wickedness shall be found in him, then he shall die.

Daniel 3:27

And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's advisers gathered and saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power (and the hair of their head was not scorched, nor were their slippers changed, nor had the smell of fire clung on them).

Luke 12:7

But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore do not fear, you are of more value than many sparrows.

Acts 27:34

Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your deliverance. For not a hair of your head shall perish.

Nehemiah 6:8

And I sent to him saying, These things which you are saying are not happening, but you pretend them out of your own heart.

Genesis 49:26

The blessings of your father are above the blessings of my ancestors, to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him, the ruler, the leader of his brothers.

Deuteronomy 33:16

and for the precious things of the earth and fullness of it, and for the good will of Him who lived in the Bush. Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.

Proverbs 10:6

Blessings are on the head of the just; but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Isaiah 51:11

Therefore the redeemed of Jehovah shall return and come with singing into Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their head. Gladness and joy shall overtake them; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Numbers 6:9

And if any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he has defiled the head of his consecration, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day he shall shave it.

Judges 13:5

For lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head. For the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb. And he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

Judges 16:17

And he told her all his heart, and said to her, A razor has not come on my hair, for I am a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak and be like any man.

1 Samuel 1:11

And she vowed a vow and said, O, Lord of Hosts, if You will indeed look upon the affliction of Your handmaid and remember me, and not forget Your handmaid, but will give to Your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Jehovah all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

Deuteronomy 21:12

then you shall bring her home to your house. And she shall shave her head and dress her nails.

Matthew 26:7

a woman came to Him, having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on His head as He reclined.

Mark 14:3

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He reclined, a woman came with an alabaster vial of pure, costly ointment of spikenard. And she broke the vial and poured it on His head.

1 Corinthians 11:4-7

Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered dishonors his Head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head; for that is even the same as if she were shaved. For if the woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn. But if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.read more.
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.

Psalm 35:14

As a friend, as to my brother, I walked; as one who mourns for a mother, I was bowed down, mourning.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and are silent; they send up dust on their heads; they gird on sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Isaiah 15:2

One has gone up to the house, even to Dibon, the high places, to weep. Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba; baldness shall be on all their heads, every beard cut off.

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness has come on Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off with the rest of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?

Jeremiah 48:37

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped. On all the hands shall be cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.

Ezekiel 7:18

They shall also gird on sackcloth, and trembling shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all heads.

Ezekiel 27:30-31

and shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall throw dust on their heads. They shall wallow themselves in the ashes. And they will be bald for you, and gird with sackcloth. And they shall weep for you with bitterness of soul, a bitter wailing.

Ezekiel 44:20

Nor shall they shave their heads nor allow their hair to grow long; they shall only trim their heads.

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feast into mourning, and all your songs into weeping; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald, and cut off your hair for the sons of your delight; make your baldness large like the eagle; for they go into exile from you.

Joshua 7:6

And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Jehovah until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust on their heads.

1 Samuel 4:12

And a man of Benjamin ran out of the army. And he came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes torn and with earth upon his head.

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Daniel 7:20

and of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth speaking very great things, whose appearance was greater than his fellows.

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Bare Heads

Leviticus 10:6

And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die, and lest He be angry on all the people. But let your brothers, the whole of Israel, mourn the burning which Jehovah has kindled.

Covering Heads

1 Corinthians 11:6

For if the woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn. But if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

Hands On Heads

Jeremiah 2:37

Yes, you shall go out from this place, and your hands on your head. For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

Heads Of Priestly Households

Nehemiah 12:12

And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: from the house of Seraiah was Meraiah; from Jeremiah, Hananiah;

Lifting Heads

Psalm 27:6

And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies, my encirclers; and I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle. I will sing; yea, I will sing praises to Jehovah.

Removing Heads

Genesis 40:19

Yet within three days Pharaoh shall lift up your head from off you, and shall hang you on a tree. And the birds shall eat your flesh from off you.

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