Bible Verses about “hair”
The Bible contains 17 verses about hair across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;”
“Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;”
“¶ The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.”
“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”
“But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for [her] hair is given her for a covering.”
“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.”
“¶ The hoary head [is] a crown of glory, [if] it be found in the way of righteousness.”
“Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.”
“Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.”
“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.”
“‹But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.›”
“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.”
“And stood at his feet behind [him] weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe [them] with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed [them] with the ointment.”
“‹But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.›”
“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.”
“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.”
“‹But there shall not an hair of your head perish.›”