13 occurrences

'Head' in the Bible

He came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place.

Verse ConceptsNightThe SunBedsSunsetsStones As Monuments

So Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top.

Verse ConceptsAnointing, ObjectsAnointing With OilMorning DevotionsMorningOilRising EarlyMonumentsObelisksStones As MonumentsThose Who Rose EarlyAnointing ThingsAnointing Oil

within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you will put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand according to your former custom when you were his cupbearer.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementRestorationLifting HeadsReinstating People

When the chief baker saw that he had interpreted favorably, he said to Joseph, “I also saw in my dream, and behold, there were three baskets of white bread on my head;

Verse ConceptsThree Other Things

and in the top basket there were some of all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

Verse ConceptsBirds EatingAnimals EatingTop Of Things

within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.”

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyHeadsRemoving HeadsAnimals Eating PeopleLifting HeadsEating CorpsesBirds EatingPeople Hung To Death

Thus it came about on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, ReasonsBanquets, Events CelebratedGuestsMealsBirthdaysBirthdays CelebratedLifting Headscelebrating

He said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed.

Verse ConceptsPromises, HumanStaffBeds

But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornHandsLaying On Of HandsFirstborn SonsHands On HeadsLeft HandsLaying On Hands To HealBlessings For The Right Hand

When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on Ephraim’s head, it displeased him; and he grasped his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

Verse ConceptsHands On HeadsBlessings For The Right HandTroubling Individuals

Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Place your right hand on his head.”

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsHands On HeadsLaying On Hands To HealDissentBlessings For The Right Hand

“The blessings of your fatherHave surpassed the blessings of my ancestorsUp to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills;May they be on the head of Joseph,And on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHillsPrincesEternal WorldBlessed By God

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