'Head' in the Bible

Finding themselves unable, however, to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they untiled the roof just over His head, and after clearing an opening they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

But He Himself was in the stern asleep, with His head on the cushion: so they woke Him. "Rabbi," they cried, "is it nothing to you that we are drowning?"

She at once went out and said to her mother: "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptizer," she replied.

The girl immediately came in, in haste, to the King and made her request. "My desire is," she said, "that you will give me, here and now, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist."

He at once sent a soldier of his guard with orders to bring John's head. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,

and brought his head on a dish and gave it to the young girl, who gave it to her mother.

Again he sent to them another servant: and as for him, they wounded him in the head and treated him shamefully.

Now when He was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while He was at table, there came a woman with a jar of pure, sweet-scented ointment very costly: she broke the jar and poured the ointment over His head.

they arrayed Him in crimson, placed on His head a wreath of thorny twigs which they had twisted,

Then they began to beat Him on the head with a cane, to spit on Him, and to do Him homage on bended knees.

Over His head was the notice in writing of the charge against Him: THE KING OF THE JEWS.