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23 Bible Verses About Hair

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  • Under the Nazirite vow in Numbers 6, no razor touched the head until the vow was completed, and the shaved hair was then burned under the peace offering.
  • Samson was a Nazirite from the womb (Judges 13:5); when his seven locks were shaved his strength left him, and Judges 16:20 adds that the Lord had left him.
  • Jesus says the hairs of the head are all numbered in Matthew 10:30 and Luke 12:7, both times as a reason not to fear those who kill the body.
  • Job shaves his head and Ezra pulls out his hair in grief, and in Ezekiel 5 the prophet’s shaved hair stands for Jerusalem.
  • Proverbs 16:31 calls gray hair a crown of glory, and hair white like wool belongs to the Ancient of Days in Daniel 7:9 and to the one like a son of man in Revelation 1:14.

The Bible treats hair as something consecrated to God, counted by God, cut off in grief and praised as beauty. The Nazirite law of Numbers 6 and the story of Samson in Judges 13-16 turn on hair that no razor touches, and Jesus speaks of the hairs of the head in Matthew 10 and Luke 21. Job and Ezra cut or pull out hair in mourning, Jeremiah 7:29 tells the people to cut off theirs, and Ezekiel 5 turns a…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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