Topic
Hair, The
39 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Leviticus 13:3Torrey Colour of, changed by leprosy
And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him…
- Leviticus 13:10Torrey Colour of, changed by leprosy
And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
- Leviticus 14:9Torrey Of the healed leper to be shorn
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 19:32Torrey WHITE OR GRAY — To be reverenced
¶ Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
- Numbers 6:5Torrey OF NAZARITES — Not to be cut or shorn during their vow
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.
- Numbers 6:18Torrey OF NAZARITES — Shorn after completion of vow
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.
- Judges 16:17Torrey OF NAZARITES — Not to be cut or shorn during their vow
That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
- Judges 16:19Torrey OF NAZARITES — Not to be cut or shorn during their vow
And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
- Judges 16:20Torrey OF NAZARITES — Not to be cut or shorn during their vow
And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
- Judges 16:22Torrey Growth of
Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
- 1 Samuel 12:2Torrey WHITE OR GRAY — A token of age
And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
- 2 Samuel 14:26Torrey Sometimes worn long by men
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.
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- Ezra 9:3 Torrey Plucked out in extreme grief
- Nehemiah 13:25 Torrey Plucking out of, a reproach
- Job 12:12 Torrey WHITE OR GRAY — An emblem of wisdom
- Psalms 40:12 Torrey Innumerable
- Psalms 68:21 Torrey The natural covering of the head
- Psalms 69:4 Torrey Innumerable
- Psalms 71:18 Torrey WHITE OR GRAY — A token of age
- Proverbs 16:31 Torrey WHITE OR GRAY — With righteousness, a crown of glory
- Ecclesiastes 9:8 Torrey Often expensively anointed
- Song of Songs 5:11 Torrey Black, particularly esteemed
- Isaiah 3:24 Torrey OF WOMEN — Well set and ornamented
- Isaiah 7:20 Torrey JUDGMENTS EXPRESSED BY — Shaving
- Isaiah 50:6 Torrey Plucking out of, a reproach
- Jeremiah 7:29 Torrey Cut off in affliction
- Jeremiah 47:5 Torrey JUDGMENTS EXPRESSED BY — Sending baldness for
- Daniel 3:27 Torrey GOD — Takes care of
- Daniel 7:9 Torrey WHITE OR GRAY — An emblem of wisdom
- Hosea 7:9 Torrey WHITE OR GRAY — A token of weakness and decay
- Matthew 5:36 Torrey Man cannot even change the colour or
- Matthew 10:30 Torrey GOD — Numbers
- Luke 7:38 Torrey OF WOMEN — Neglected in grief
- Luke 21:18 Torrey GOD — Takes care of
- John 12:3 Torrey OF WOMEN — Neglected in grief
- 1 Corinthians 11:14 Torrey Men condemned for wearing long
- 1 Corinthians 11:15 Torrey OF WOMEN — Worn long for a covering
- 1 Timothy 2:9 Torrey OF WOMEN — Plaited and broidered
- 1 Peter 3:3 Torrey OF WOMEN — Plaited and broidered
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 40 references, grouped by sub-topic
- The natural covering of the head Ps 68:21
- Innumerable Ps 40:12; 69:4
- Growth of Jud 16:22
- GOD
- Black, particularly esteemed So 5:11
- WHITE OR GRAY
- Man cannot even change the colour or Mt 5:36
- OF WOMEN
- Sometimes worn long by men 2Sa 14:26
- Men condemned for wearing long 1Co 11:14
- Often expensively anointed Ec 9:8
- OF NAZARITES
- 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
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.