Hair
12 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Numbered
- Matthew 10:30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
- Luke 12:7 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Symbolical Dividing of
- Ezekiel 5:1–2 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair. …
Worn Long by Absalom
- 2 Samuel 14:26 And when he cut the hair of his head— he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy— he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
Worn Long by Women
- Isaiah 3:24 Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
- Luke 7:38 As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
- 1 Corinthians 11:5–6 And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. …
- 1 Corinthians 11:15 but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.
- 1 Timothy 2:9 Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
- 1 Peter 3:3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
- Revelation 9:8 They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.
Worn Short by Men
- 1 Corinthians 11:14 Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
Related topics
The Hair of WomenThe Hair of NazaritesThe Hair of the Healed Leper to be ShornThe Hair
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.