19 occurrences

'Heads' in the Bible

And all the passers-by reviled Him. They shook their heads at Him and said, "Ah! you who were for destroying the Sanctuary and building a new one in three days,

Verse ConceptsGesturesMockingDestruction Of The TempleShaking The HeadInsulting ChristRebuilding The TempleAbuse

But when all this is beginning to take place, grieve no longer. Lift up your heads, because your deliverance is drawing near."

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerBeginningRedemption, In NtStandingBeginning Of SalvationLifting HeadsNear The Time GenerallyImminenceRedemptiondeliverancerelentless

But upon their opposing him with abusive language, he shook his clothes by way of protest, and said to them, "Your ruin will be upon your own heads. I am not responsible: in future I will go among the Gentiles."

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtConfrontationBlood, as symbol of guiltInsultsSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfAbuse, To God's PeopleRejection Of God's CallShakingName CallingThe Gentiles ConversionPreaching Gospel To ForeignersResponsibility For Blood ShedPeople Abandoning PeopleBlasphemy

Associate with these men and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses so that they can shave their heads. Then everybody will know that there is no truth in these stories about you, but that in your own actions you yourself scrupulously obey the Law.

Verse ConceptsShavingPurifying OneselfPaying For GoodsKeep The Commandments!

The appearance of the locusts was like that of horses equipped for war. On their heads they had wreaths which looked like gold.

Verse ConceptsLocustsThings Like GoldCrowns On CreaturesLike Menbugscrowns

And this was the appearance of the horses which I saw in my vision--and of their riders. The body-armour of the riders was red, blue and yellow; and the horses' heads were shaped like the heads of lions, while from their mouths there came fire and smoke and sulphur.

Verse ConceptsBackHorsesVisionsBrimstoneCreatures Like LionsSulphurYellowLike CreaturesBrownOther References To Mouths

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails being like serpents, and having heads, and it is with them that they inflict injury.

Verse ConceptsSnakesTailsThings Like SnakesOther References To MouthsPeople Possibly Doing EvilHurt

And he took up a position upon the sands of the sea-shore. Then I saw a Wild Beast coming up out of the sea, and he had ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten kingly crowns, and inscribed on his heads were names full of blasphemy.

Verse ConceptsCreaturesBlasphemy, Examples OfThe BeastSeaSevenSeven Body PartsTen ThingsSeashoresHorns In AllegoryBlasphemyCrowns On CreaturesSand And GravelThe World Ruler

I saw that one of his heads seemed to have been mortally wounded; but his mortal wound was healed, and the whole world was amazed and followed him.

Verse ConceptsTribulation GovernmentRecoveryscars

So he carried me away in the Spirit into a desert, and there I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored Wild Beast which was covered with names of blasphemy and had seven heads and ten horns.

Verse ConceptsCreaturesecstasyThe BeastTranceColors, ScarletSeven Body PartsTen ThingsHorns In AllegoryGod Carrying PeopleCosmic CreaturesWomen In ProphecyRed AnimalsBlasphemyLed By The SpiritColor

Here is scope for the exercise of a mind that has wisdom! The seven heads are the seven hills on which the woman sits.

Verse ConceptsBabylonMind, The HumanWisdom, Human NatureSeven ThingsFalse Religious System

And they threw dust upon their heads, and cried out, weeping aloud and sorrowing. 'Alas, alas,' they said, 'for this great city, in which, through her vast wealth, the owners of all the ships on the sea have grown rich; because in one short hour she has been laid waste!'

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative UseCommerceA Short TimeDestruction Of BabylonShips For TradingDust On The HeadShort Time For ActionRegretting

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