Hair Covering

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved. — read the full passage →

The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.

She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” She took her veil, and covered herself.

A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled? — read the full passage →

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting. — read the full passage →

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”

Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel. — read the full passage →

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. — read the full passage →

You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.

Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

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

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled? — read the full passage →

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? — read the full passage →

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

“The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. — read the full passage →

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. — read the full passage →

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.

She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering. — read the full passage →

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. — read the full passage →

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. — read the full passage →

Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat men’s bread.

In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, — read the full passage →

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.

“‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

He shall put on the holy linen coat. He shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.

for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

And not a hair of your head will perish.

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. — read the full passage →

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.

At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.