The word in Scripture

Hair in the Bible

The word hair appears 64 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Hair speaks of the smallest detail that God numbers and knows. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What hair means in the Bible

Hair speaks of the smallest detail that God numbers and knows.

Where the word hair appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word hair appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“In 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

“I 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

“Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.”Matthew 5:36

“But there shall not an hair of your head perish.”Luke 21:18

“(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)”John 11:2

“Then 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 odour of the ointment.”John 12:3

“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;”Revelation 6:12

“And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.”Revelation 9:8