Hair, the.

From: The New Topical Textbook By: Reuben Archer Torrey

• 1 min. read • grade level: 11

The natural covering of the head. Psa. 68:21²¹But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses. (Psalm 68:21).

Innumerable. Psa. 40:12¹²For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. (Psalm 40:12). Psa. 69:4⁴They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. (Psalm 69:4).

Growth of. Judg. 16:22²²Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. (Judges 16:22).

GOD

Numbers. Matt. 10:30³⁰But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (Matthew 10:30).

Takes care of. Dan. 3:27²⁷And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them. (Daniel 3:27). Luke 21:18¹⁸But there shall not an hair of your head perish. (Luke 21:18).

Black, particularly esteemed. SoS. 5:11.

WHITE OR GRAY,

A token of age. 1 Sam. 12:2²And 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. (1 Samuel 12:2). Psa. 71:18¹⁸Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. (Psalm 71:18).

A token of weakness and decay. Hos. 7:9⁹Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. (Hosea 7:9).

An emblem of wisdom. Dan. 7:9⁹I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. (Daniel 7:9), with Job 12:12¹²With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. (Job 12:12).

With righteousness, a crown of glory. Prov. 16:31³¹The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. (Proverbs 16:31).

To be reverenced. Lev. 19:32³²Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord. (Leviticus 19:32).

Man cannot even change the color of. Matt. 5:36³⁶Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. (Matthew 5:36).

OF WOMEN

Worn long for a covering. 1 Cor. 11:15¹⁵But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. (1 Corinthians 11:15).

Plaited and broidered. 1 Tim. 2:9⁹In 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; (1 Timothy 2:9). 1 Peter 3:3³Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; (1 Peter 3:3).

Well set and ornamented. Isa. 3:24²⁴And 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. (Isaiah 3:24).

Neglected in grief. Luke 7:38³⁸And 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. (Luke 7:38). John 12:3³Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. (John 12:3).

Sometimes worn long by men. 2 Sam. 14:26²⁶And 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. (2 Samuel 14:26).

Men condemned for wearing long. 1 Cor. 11:14¹⁴Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? (1 Corinthians 11:14).

Often expensively anointed. Ecc. 9:8.

OF NAZARITES

Not to be cut or shorn during their vow. Num. 6:5⁵All 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 6:5). Judg. 16:17, 19, 20¹⁷That 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 16:17)
¹⁹And 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. ²⁰And 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 16:19‑20).

Shorn after completion of vow. Num. 6:18¹⁸And 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. (Numbers 6:18).

Of the healed leper to be shorn. Lev. 14:9⁹But 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 14:9).

Color of, changed by leprosy. Lev. 13:3, 10³And 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 unclean. (Leviticus 13:3)
¹⁰And 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 13:10).

Cut off in affliction. Jer. 7:29.

Plucked out in extreme grief. Ezra 9:3³And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied. (Ezra 9:3).

Plucking out of, a reproach. Neh. 13:25²⁵And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves. (Nehemiah 13:25). Isa. 50:6⁶I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. (Isaiah 50:6).

JUDGMENTS EXPRESSED BY

Sending baldness for. Isa. 3:24²⁴And 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. (Isaiah 3:24). Jer. 47:5⁵Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? (Jeremiah 47:5).

Shaving. Isa. 7:20²⁰In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. (Isaiah 7:20).

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