The Hair
28 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
21 sections
- Black, Particularly Esteemed
- Colour of, Changed by Leprosy
- Cut off in Affliction
- God: Numbers
- God: Takes Care of
- Growth of
- Innumerable
- Judgments Expressed by Sending Baldness For
- Judgments Expressed by Shaving
- Man Cannot Even Change the Colour Or
- Men Condemned for Wearing Long
- Often Expensively Anointed
- Plucked out in Extreme Grief
- Plucking out of, a Reproach
- Sometimes Worn Long by Men
- The Natural Covering of the Head
- White or Gray with Righteousness, a Crown of Glory
- White or Gray: A Token of Age
- White or Gray: A Token of Weakness and Decay
- White or Gray: An Emblem of Wisdom
- White or Gray: To be Reverenced
Black, Particularly Esteemed
- Song of Solomon 5:11 His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
Colour of, Changed by Leprosy
- Leviticus 13:3 The priest is to examine the infection on his skin, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a skin disease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him unclean.
- Leviticus 13:10 The priest will examine him, and if there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,
Cut off in Affliction
- Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
God: Numbers
- Matthew 10:30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
God: Takes Care of
- Daniel 3:27 and when the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers had gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men. Not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and there was …
- Luke 21:18 Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.
Growth of
- Judges 16:22 However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.
Innumerable
- Psalm 40:12 For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
- Psalm 69:4 Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me — my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.
Judgments Expressed by Sending Baldness For
- 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.
- Jeremiah 47:5 The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?
Judgments Expressed by Shaving
- Isaiah 7:20 On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates— the king of Assyria— to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
Man Cannot Even Change the Colour Or
- Matthew 5:36 Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.
Men Condemned for Wearing Long
- 1 Corinthians 11:14 Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
Often Expensively Anointed
- Ecclesiastes 9:8 Let your garments always be white, and never spare the oil for your head.
Plucked out in Extreme Grief
- Ezra 9:3 When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.
Plucking out of, a Reproach
- Nehemiah 13:25 I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their …
- Isaiah 50:6 I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
Sometimes Worn Long by Men
- 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.
The Natural Covering of the Head
- Psalm 68:21 Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.
White or Gray with Righteousness, a Crown of Glory
- Proverbs 16:31 Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.
White or Gray: A Token of Age
- 1 Samuel 12:2 Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
- Psalm 71:18 Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
White or Gray: A Token of Weakness and Decay
- Hosea 7:9 Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
White or Gray: An Emblem of Wisdom
- Daniel 7:9 As I continued to watch, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.
- Job 12:12 Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
White or Gray: To be Reverenced
- Leviticus 19:32 You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.