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Head names 2 things on this site
- Head, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Head Coverings, MannaFest, a featured study.A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
Featured studies
5 results- StudyHead Coverings, MannaFestA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Floating Axe Head — 2 Kings 6A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Statue and the Stone: Daniel 2 and 7One dream told twice: the metals of Nebuchadnezzar's image set against the beasts of Daniel's night vision, and the stone that becomes a mountain.
- StudyResh (ר): the Hebrew letterThe head, first, chief, beginning, and one half of the pair Jesus's “tittle” protects.
- StudyRho (Ρρ): the Greek letterThe head, and half of the monogram Constantine put on a standard.
Verses
469 results- VersePsalms 110:7He will drink from the brook by the road; therefore He will lift up His head.
- Verse1 Corinthians 11:4Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
- VerseJob 19:9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
- VerseLeviticus 8:20He cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.
- Verse2 Kings 4:19“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
People
6 results- PersonAdamThe first man — formed of dust and God's breath, image-bearer, and federal head of the race in whom all sinned.
- PersonSethThe appointed son given “instead of Abel”; the head of the godly line of promise through which Noah and ultimately Christ descend (Luke 3:38).
- PersonSaulIsrael's first king, head and shoulders above the people; began in humility, ended in rejection — sparing what God devoted, consulting a medium at Endor, and falling on Gilboa.
- PersonElishaElijah's successor with the firstborn's double portion; the prophet of the healed spring, the widow's oil, the Shunammite's son, Naaman's cleansing, and the axe head that swam.
- PersonStephanasHead of a Corinthian household called the firstfruits of Achaia, baptized by Paul himself; part of the delegation that brought the Corinthians' news to Ephesus (1 Cor 1:16…
Places
1 resultWords (Strong's)
- WordG2776 κεφαλή · kephalḗ (Greek)the head (as the part most readily taken hold of), literally or figuratively. The Greek word stands 75 times in the original text.
- WordH7218 רֹאשׁ · rôʼsh (Hebrew)the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.). The Hebrew word stands 599 times in the original text.
- WordH7217 רֵאשׁ · rêʼsh (Hebrew)the head. The Hebrew word stands 14 times in the original text.
- WordH7222 רֹאשָׁה · rôʼshâh (Hebrew)the head. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH1538 גֻּלְגֹּלֶת · gulgôleth (Hebrew)a skull (as round). The Hebrew word stands 12 times in the original text.
Concepts
1 resultThemes
1 resultTopics
3 resultsProphecies
3 results- ProphecyStone Rejected Becomes Head CornerstoneThe rejected stone becoming the cornerstone pictures a reversal of fortune only possible through resurrection. The builders (religious leaders) reject the stone (Messiah), but…
- ProphecyBorn of a WomanThe first messianic prophecy in Scripture. The 'seed of the woman' would crush the serpent's head while being wounded in the process — a picture of Christ's victory over Satan…
- ProphecyMocked and RidiculedThe Messiah would be mocked by onlookers who would shake their heads and challenge God to save him.
Apologetics
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54 results- VoiceChromatius of AquileiaAquileia, at the head of the Adriatic, was the fourth city of Italy in the fourth century — a port, a mint, an imperial residence, and a major church. Chromatius grew up there…
- VoiceBonaventureHe was born Giovanni di Fidanza at Bagnoregio in central Italy, about 1217. The story he tells is that he was gravely ill as a small child and his mother prayed to Francis of…
- VoiceTiconiusTyconius — the name is also spelled Ticonius — was a North African layman who wrote in the second half of the fourth century. He died about 390. He was a Donatist, and he was…
- VoiceDon RichardsonDon Richardson (June 23, 1935 – December 23, 2018) was a Canadian Christian missionary, author, and pioneering missiologist. With his wife Carol and infant son, he went in 1962…
- VoiceJohn OwenJohn Owen was born in 1616 at Stadhampton, a village about five miles from Oxford, where his father was a Puritan vicar. He went up to Queen's College, Oxford, at twelve and…
Apocrypha (study resources)
113 results- Study resourceSirach 12:18He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much, and change his countenance.
- Study resource1 Enoch 71:10And with them the Head of Days, His head white and pure as wool, And His raiment indescribable.
- Study resourceSirach 17:23Afterwards he will rise up and reward them, and render their recompence upon their heads.
- Study resource2 Esdras 11:9But let the heads be preserved for the last.
- Study resourceSirach 25:15There is no head above the head of a serpent; and there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy.
Doorways
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G2776κεφαλή kephalḗ — the head (as the
part most readily taken hold of), literally or figurativelyH7218רֹאשׁ rôʼsh — the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)H7217רֵאשׁ rêʼsh — the headH7222רֹאשָׁה rôʼshâh — the headH1538גֻּלְגֹּלֶת gulgôleth — a skull (as round)H4763מְרַאֲשָׁה mᵉraʼăshâh — properly, a headpiece, i.e. (plural for adverbial) at (or as) the head-rest (or pillow)