'Head' in the Bible

He who withholds grain, the people will curse him,But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

A gray head is a crown of glory;It is found in the way of righteousness.

For you will heap burning coals on his head,And the Lord will reward you.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one fate befalls them both.

Let your clothes be white all the time, and let not oil be lacking on your head.

“Let his left hand be under my headAnd his right hand embrace me.”

“I was asleep but my heart was awake.A voice! My beloved was knocking:‘Open to me, my sister, my darling,My dove, my perfect one!For my head is drenched with dew,My locks with the damp of the night.’

“His head is like gold, pure gold;His locks are like clusters of datesAnd black as a raven.

“Your head crowns you like Carmel,And the flowing locks of your head are like purple threads;The king is captivated by your tresses.

“Let his left hand be under my headAnd his right hand embrace me.”

Where will you be stricken again,As you continue in your rebellion?The whole head is sickAnd the whole heart is faint.

From the sole of the foot even to the headThere is nothing sound in it,Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,Not pressed out or bandaged,Nor softened with oil.

For the head of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65 years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people),

and the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, you surely shall not last.”’”

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

So the Lord cuts off head and tail from Israel,Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

The head is the elder and honorable man,And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep.Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.

There will be no work for EgyptWhich its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,Which is at the head of the fertile valleyOf those who are overcome with wine!

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,Which is at the head of the fertile valley,Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to summer,Which one sees,And as soon as it is in his hand,He swallows it.

this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:“She has despised you and mocked you,The virgin daughter of Zion;She has shaken her head behind you,The daughter of Jerusalem!

Your sons have fainted,They lie helpless at the head of every street,Like an antelope in a net,Full of the wrath of the Lord,The rebuke of your God.

“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself?Is it for bowing one’s head like a reedAnd for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed?Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the Lord?

He put on righteousness like a breastplate,And a helmet of salvation on His head;And He put on garments of vengeance for clothingAnd wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

“Also the men of Memphis and TahpanhesHave shaved the crown of your head.

“From this place also you will go outWith your hands on your head;For the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust,And you will not prosper with them.”

Oh that my head were watersAnd my eyes a fountain of tears,That I might weep day and nightFor the slain of the daughter of my people!

Say to the king and the queen mother,“Take a lowly seat,For your beautiful crownHas come down from your head.”

“What will you say when He appoints over you—And you yourself had taught them—Former companions to be head over you?Will not pangs take hold of youLike a woman in childbirth?

Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

To make their land a desolation,An object of perpetual hissing;Everyone who passes by it will be astonishedAnd shake his head.

“Behold, the storm of the Lord has gone forth in wrath,Even a whirling tempest;It will swirl down on the head of the wicked.

Behold, the tempest of the Lord!Wrath has gone forth,A sweeping tempest;It will burst on the head of the wicked.

Now was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.

For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

“Wander away from the midst of BabylonAnd go forth from the land of the Chaldeans;Be also like male goats at the head of the flock.

“Arise, cry aloud in the nightAt the beginning of the night watches;Pour out your heart like waterBefore the presence of the Lord;Lift up your hands to HimFor the life of your little onesWho are faint because of hungerAt the head of every street.”

Waters flowed over my head;I said, “I am cut off!”

The crown has fallen from our head;Woe to us, for we have sinned!

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.

He stretched out the form of a hand and caught me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the idol of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was located.

I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head,” declares the Lord God, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “As I live, surely My oath which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will inflict on his head.

he lends money on interest and takes increase; will he live? He will not live! He has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.

“As for you, son of man, make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to the city.

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver.

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it.”

then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

Corresponding to the openings of the chambers which were toward the south was an opening at the head of the way, the way in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters them.

and the commander of the officials said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the youths who are your own age? Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king.”

The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,

and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has given them into your hand and has caused you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold.

The satraps, the prefects, the governors and the king’s high officials gathered around and saw in regard to these men that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their trousers damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come upon them.

“I kept lookingUntil thrones were set up,And the Ancient of Days took His seat;His vesture was like white snowAnd the hair of His head like pure wool.His throne was ablaze with flames,Its wheels were a burning fire.

and the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up, and before which three of them fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth uttering great boasts and which was larger in appearance than its associates.

Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense on your head.

behold, I am going to arouse them from the place where you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head.

“These who pant after the very dust of the earth on the head of the helplessAlso turn aside the way of the humble;And a man and his father resort to the same girlIn order to profane My holy name.

Therefore, they will now go into exile at the head of the exiles,And the sprawlers’ banqueting will pass away.

“Then I will turn your festivals into mourningAnd all your songs into lamentation;And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s loinsAnd baldness on every head.And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

“For the day of the Lord draws near on all the nations.As you have done, it will be done to you.Your dealings will return on your own head.

“Water encompassed me to the point of death.The great deep engulfed me,Weeds were wrapped around my head.

So the Lord God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about the plant.

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”

“The breaker goes up before them;They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it.So their king goes on before them,And the Lord at their head.”

Yet she became an exile,She went into captivity;Also her small children were dashed to piecesAt the head of every street;They cast lots for her honorable men,And all her great men were bound with fetters.

You went forth for the salvation of Your people,For the salvation of Your anointed.You struck the head of the house of the evilTo lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.

You pierced with his own spearsThe head of his throngs.They stormed in to scatter us;Their exultation was like thoseWho devour the oppressed in secret.

I said, “What are these coming to do?” And he said, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah so that no man lifts up his head; but these craftsmen have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah in order to scatter it.”

Then I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments, while the angel of the Lord was standing by.

Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face

Jesus *said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign the members of his household!

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

And Jesus said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”

Having been prompted by her mother, she *said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”

And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table.

And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

They spat on Him, and took the reed and began to beat Him on the head.

And above His head they put up the charge against Him which read, “THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

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.

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

You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with perfume.

And Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.

“But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.