Beard, The

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Leviticus 13:29Torrey Subject to leprosy

  ¶ If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;

• Leviticus 13:30Torrey Subject to leprosy

  Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.

• Leviticus 14:9Torrey Of the healed leper to be shaved

  But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

• Leviticus 19:27Torrey Corners of, not to be marred for the dead

  Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

• Leviticus 21:5Torrey Corners of, not to be marred for the dead

  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.

• 1 Samuel 20:9Torrey Laying hold of, a token of respect

  And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?

• 1 Samuel 21:13Torrey Dribbling on, a sign of derangement

  And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

• 2 Samuel 10:4Torrey Shaving of, a great offence

  Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

• 2 Samuel 10:5Torrey The Jews never appeared without

  When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

• 2 Samuel 10:6Torrey Shaving of, a great offence

  ¶ And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.

• 2 Samuel 10:7Torrey Shaving of, a great offence

  And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

• 2 Samuel 19:24Torrey IN AFFLICTION — Was neglected and untrimmed

  ¶ And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.