'Hair' in the Bible

John himself had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Neither should you swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.

John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

and stood behind Him at His feet, weeping, and began to wash His feet with her tears. She wiped His feet with the hair of her head, kissing them and anointing them with the fragrant oil.

Turning to the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she, with her tears, has washed My feet and wiped them with her hair.

but not a hair of your head will be lost.

Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.

Then Mary took a pound of fragrant oil—pure and expensive nard—anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

Therefore I urge you to take some food. For this has to do with your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.”

So if a woman’s head is not covered, her hair should be cut off. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, she should be covered.

Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a disgrace to him,

but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her as a covering.

His head and hair were white like wool—white as snow—and His eyes like a fiery flame.

Then I saw Him open the sixth seal. A violent earthquake occurred; the sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair; the entire moon became like blood;

they had hair like women’s hair; their teeth were like lions’ teeth;