Woman of Distinction
8 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Fair and Graceful
- Genesis 12:11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,
- Genesis 24:16 Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
- Song of Solomon 1:8 If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
- Amos 8:13 In that day the lovely young women — the young men as well — will faint from thirst.
Fond of Dress and Ornaments
- Isaiah 3:17–23 the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.” …
Haughty in Their Deportment
- Isaiah 3:16 The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty — walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles —
Wore Their Hair Plaited and Adorned with Gold and Pearls
- 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.
- 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,
Related topics
WomanThe Feet of Women often Adorned with Tingling OrnamentsJewelsThe Hair of Women
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.