23 occurrences in 13 translations

'Head' in the Bible

Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

Verse ConceptsShavingMemphiscrowns

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

Verse ConceptsRejecting PeopleHands On HeadsTrusting Other PeopleNot Prospering

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

Verse ConceptsQueensThroneNo KingBeing HumbleSurrenderHumble Yourselfhumblenesscrownsmistressprincipalities

What will you say when the LORD appoints over you as your head those whom you taught to be your allies? Pain will seize you like that seizing a woman about to give birth, will it not?

Verse ConceptsAliancesLabour PainsPeople Teaching

And their honourable ones have sent their little ones to the water, They have come unto ditches, They have not found water, They have turned back -- their vessels empty! They have been ashamed, And have blushed and covered their head.

Verse ConceptsCisternsNoblesDry PlacesSeeking WaterShaming People

Because the ground hath been broken, For there hath been no rain in the land, Ashamed have been husbandmen, They have covered their head.

Verse ConceptsVeilsShaming People

Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadBaldnessHairsKnivesUnburied BodiesNo BurialsGreat And SmallGashing BodiesNot Mourning

To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

Verse ConceptsAstonishmentShaking The HeadHissing

For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesWeed

Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

Verse ConceptsStormsWeather, As God's JudgmentWhirlwindsHurricanesGod Controls Storms

The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.

Verse ConceptsMadmenDeposed PriestsExchange Of IndividualsReckoned Insane

Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

Verse ConceptsStormsWhirlwindsHurricanesGod Controls Storms

For thus said Jehovah: Sing, O ye to Jacob, with joy, And cry aloud at the head of the nations, Sound ye, praise ye, and say, Save, O Jehovah, thy people, the remnant of Israel.

Verse ConceptsPraiseShoutingMusic To CelebrateSurvivors Favoured

The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessHairsHeadsKnivesMourningSilenceGashing Bodies

Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”

Verse Conceptsthieves

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

Verse ConceptsBarbersBaldnessBeardsHairsHeadsKnivesMourningGashing Bodies

They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

Verse ConceptsForeheadsShadows

Move away from the middle of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans. Be like male goats at the head of the flock.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonComing Out From Evil

Lift ye up an ensign in the land, Blow a trumpet among nations, Sanctify against it nations, Summon against it the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz, Appoint against it an infant head, Cause the horse to ascend as the rough cankerworm.

Verse ConceptsCaterpillarsTrumpetTrumpets For BattleFlags

And the chief of the executioners taketh Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold,

Verse ConceptsChief priestsThree Men

and out of the city he hath taken a certain eunuch, who hath been inspector over the men of war, and seven men of those seeing the king's face, who have been found in the city, and the head scribe of the host, who mustereth the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land, who are found in the midst of the city;

Verse ConceptsConscriptionScribesSecretarySeven PeopleSixties

And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Lifting HeadsPeople Set Free By People

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Captain (178 instances)
Chair (8 instances)
Class (20 instances)
Forefront (12 instances)
Heading (14 instances)
Headway (1 instance)
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Mayor (2 instances)
Precede (1 instance)
Principal (36 instances)
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