'Head' in the Bible

The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.

And she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.”

Immediately she came in a hurry to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded him to bring back his head. And he went and had him beheaded in the prison,

and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.

They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing before Him.