Dictionary entry

Hair, The

R. A. Torrey's New Topical Textbook

The natural covering of the head Ps 68:21

Innumerable Ps 40:12; 69:4

Growth of Jud 16:22

GOD

Numbers Mt 10:30

Takes care of Da 3:27; Lu 21:18

Black, particularly esteemed So 5:11

WHITE OR GRAY

A token of age 1Sa 12:2; Ps 71:18

A token of weakness and decay Ho 7:9

An emblem of wisdom Da 7:9; Job 12:12

With righteousness, a crown of glory Pr 16:31

To be reverenced Le 19:32

Man cannot even change the colour or Mt 5:36

OF WOMEN

Worn long for a covering 1Co 11:15

Plaited and broidered 1Ti 2:9; 1Pe 3:3

Well set and ornamented Isa 3:24

Neglected in grief Lu 7:38; Joh 12:3

Sometimes worn long by men 2Sa 14:26

Men condemned for wearing long 1Co 11:14

Often expensively anointed Ec 9:8

OF NAZARITES

Not to be cut or shorn during their vow Nu 6:5; Jud 16:17,19,20

Shorn after completion of vow Nu 6:18

Of the healed leper to be shorn Le 14:9

Colour of, changed by leprosy Le 13:3,10

Cut off in affliction Jer 7:29

Plucked out in extreme grief Ezr 9:3

Plucking out of, a reproach Ne 13:25; Isa 50:6

JUDGMENTS EXPRESSED BY

Sending baldness for Isa 3:24; Jer 47:5

Shaving Isa 7:20