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Bible Verses About Hair

This collection includes 50 passages about Hair. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

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But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

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Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

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But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

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And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.

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Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

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All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

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Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

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But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

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Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

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For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

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For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

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Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

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They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

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For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

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And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.

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Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

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And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

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Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

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But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

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Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.

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And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

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Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

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They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

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For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

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It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

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And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.

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Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

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But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

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Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

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Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

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And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.

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And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

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And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

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The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

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She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

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Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

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In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

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And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.

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