New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Hair, The

• The natural covering of the head Ps. 68:21
• Innumerable Ps. 40:12, 69:4
• Growth of Judg. 16:22
• God
  • Numbers Mt. 10:30
  • Takes care of Dan. 3:27; Lk. 21:18
• Black, particularly esteemed Song 5:11
• White or gray
  • A token of age 1 Sam. 12:2; Ps. 71:18
  • A token of weakness and decay Hos. 7:9
  • An emblem of wisdom Dan. 7:9; Job 12:12
  • With righteousness, a crown of glory Pr. 16:31
  • To be reverenced Lev. 19:32
• Man cannot even change the color or Mt. 5:36
• Of women
  • Worn long for a covering 1 Cor. 11:15
  • Plaited and broidered 1 Tim. 2:9; 1 Pet. 3:3
  • Well set and ornamented Isa. 3:24
  • Neglected in grief Lk. 7:38; Jn. 12:3
• Sometimes worn long by men 2 Sam. 14:26
• Men condemned for wearing long 1 Cor. 11:14
• Often expensively anointed Eccl. 9:8
• Of nazarites
  • Not to be cut or shorn during their vow Num. 6:5; Judg. 16:17, 19, 20
  • Shorn after completion of vow Num. 6:18
• Of the healed leper to be shorn Lev. 14:9
• Color of, changed by leprosy Lev. 13:3, 10
• Cut off in affliction Jer. 7:29
• Plucked out in extreme grief Ezra 9:3
• Plucking out of, a reproach Neh. 13:25; Isa. 50:6
• Judgments expressed by
  • Sending baldness for Isa. 3:24; Jer. 47:5
  • Shaving Isa. 7:20