Baldness
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Baldness’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–15 of 15 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
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If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
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Isaiah 3:24 OT
It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
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Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
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For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.
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Ezekiel 7:18 OT
They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
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Isaiah 22:12 OT
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
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Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.
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They will make themselves bald for you, and clothe themselves with sackcloth. They will weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.
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“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served…
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Amos 8:10 OT
I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
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Micah 1:16 OT
Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you!
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“ ‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.
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You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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2 Kings 2:23 OT
He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”