opposed themselves, and blas-1 phemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

Num. xvii, 3. And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.

Num. XXV, 15. And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, he was head over a people,and of a chief house in Midian.

Deut. xxviii, 13. And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tall; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do

them.

Josh. xxii, 14, 21. And with him ten princes, of each chief house, a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel. Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and sald unto the heads of the thou

sands of Israel.

2 Sam. xxii, 44. Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

1 Chron. xxix, 11. Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

habited.

Hosea 1, 11. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

pray you, O heads of Jacob, and Micah iii, 1. And I said, Hear, I ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judg ment?

Hab. iii, 13, 14. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unstrike through with his staves the to the neck. Selah. Thou didst head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: the poor secretly. their rejoicing was as to devour

1 Cor. xi, 3. But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Col. ii, 10. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.

THE HEAD WAS BOWED IN

TOKEN OF REVERENCE
TO GOD OR RESPECT
TO MAN.

Gen. xxiv, 26. And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.

ed, Thy servant our father is in Gen. xliii, 28. And they answergood health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.

lieved: and when they heard that Exod. iv, 31. And the people bethe LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

made haste, and bowed his head Exod. xxxiv, 8. And Moses toward the earth, and worshipped.

1 Chron. xxix, 20. And David bless the LORD your God. And said to all the congregation, Now all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathera, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.

phat bowed his head with his 2 Chron. xx, 18. And Jehoshaface to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

Hezekiah the king and the princes 2 Chron. xxix, 30. Moreover commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their | heads and worshipped.

therefore had received the vinegar, John xix, 30. When Jesus he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

WAS COVERED OR HAD DUST, EARTH, OR ASHES PUT UPON IT IN TOKEN OF MOURNING.

his clothes, and fell to the earth Josh. vii, 6. And Joshua rent upon his face before the ark of dust upon their heads. the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put

2 Sam. i, 2. It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeis

ance.

HAIR.

and wept; and they rent every whose hair is fallen off his head, Lev. xii, 40. And the man one his mantle, and sprinkled he is bald; yet is he clean. dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Judges xvi, 22. Howbeit the

of blood to destroy any more, lest not one hair of thy son fall to the they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall

earth.

have sent their little ones to the waters; they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded and covered their heads.

Amos ii, 7. That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek. .

again after he was shaven.

2 Sam. xiv, 26. And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

Ezra ix, 3. And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.

Ps. xl, 12. For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to hairs of mine head: therefore my look up; they are more than the heart faileth me.

Ps. Ixvili, 21. But God shall and the hairy scalp of such an wound the head of his enemies, one as goeth on still in his tres

passes.

Jer. vii, 29. Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the genera

Eccles. ix, 8. Let thy garments be always white, and let thy headtion of his wrath. lack no ointment.

Matth. vi, 17. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face.

Mark xiv, 3. And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

Luke vii, 46. My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this Woman hath anointed my feet

with ointment.

Matth. x, 30. But the very hairs. of your head are all numbered.

Luke vii, 38. And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

1 Cor. xl, 14, 15. Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

1 Tim. ii, 9. In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in

1 Kings 1, 52. And Solomon worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.

Luke xxi, 18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

Acts xxvii, 34. Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

HOARY HAIR THE MARK OF AGE AND VENERABLE

APPEARANCE.

Gen. xlii, 38. And he said, My son shall not go down with you; left alone: if mischief befall him for his brother is dead, and he is by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

before the hoary head, and nonour Lev. xix, 32. Thou shalt rise up the face of the old man, ani fear tuy God: I am the LORD.

Deut. xxxii, 25. The word without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also, with the man of gray hairs.

1 Sam. xii, 2. And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

Job xv, 10. With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

Ps. lxxi, 18. Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not.

....

Isa. xlvi, 4. And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have

CONTEMPT.

Ps. xxii, 7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head.

Ps. xliv, 14. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

Ps. cix, 25. I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

Matth. xxvii. 39. And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads.

ness and sobriety; not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.

1 Peter iii, 3. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel.

USED IN PROVERBIAL EXPRESSIONS TO DENOTE

PERFECT SAFETY.

2 Sam. xiv, 11. Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou

carry, and will deliver you.

Dan. vii, 9. I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool.....

Hosea vii, 9. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

Rev. 1, 14. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire.

BALDNESS, A TOKEN OF DISEASE, GRIEF AND RE

head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped.

Ezek. xliv, 20. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer shall only poll their heads. their locks to grow long; they

PROACH. (See Disease.) Lev. xxi, 5. They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of Acts xxi, 24. Them take, and their beard, nor make any cut-purify thyself with them, and be tings in their flesh. at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

2 Kings ii, 23. And he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald-head; go up, thou bald-head.

Neh. xiii, 25. And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for your

selves.

AND THE HEAD THEREFORE

SOMETIMES Shaved. Deut. xiv, 1. Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Deut. xxi, 12. Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails.

Judges xvi, 19. And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

Job i, 20. Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his

THE BEARD USUALLY WORN,

Lev. xix, 27. Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

his behaviour before them, and 1 Sam. xxi, 13. And he changed feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

2 Sam. x, 5. When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

eth the son of Saul came down to 2 Sam. xix, 24. And Mephibosh meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, until the day he came again in from the day the king departed

peace.

this thing, I rent my garment and Ezra ix, 3. And when I heard hair of my head and of my beard, my 'mantle, and plucked off the

and sat down astonied.

Isa. vii, 20. shall the Lord shave with a razor In the same day 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.

Jer. xli, 5. That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having

cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

Ezek. v, 1. And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

SPOT OF A PUBLIC OR

OFFICIAL MARK.

Ezek. ix, 4. And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the city, through the midst of the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Ezek. xvi, 12. And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

Rev. vii, 3. Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the servants of our God in their foretrees, till we have sealed the heads.

ed them that they should not Rev. ix, 4. And it was commandany green thing, neither any tree; hurt the grass of the earth, neither but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

both small and great, rich and Rev. xiii, 16. And he caused all, poor, free and bond, to receive a their foreheads. mark in their right hand, or in

10, a Lamb stood on the mount Rev. xiv, 1, 9. And I looked, and, Sion, and with him an hundred his Father's name written in their forty and four thousand, having foreheads. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand.

Rev. xvii, 5. And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT.

Rev. xx, 4. And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand

years.

I am known.

FACE

BOWING DOWN THE FACE, TOKEN OF OBEISANCE. Gen. xlviii, 12. And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

and bowed himself.

and bowed herself on her face to 1 Sam. xxv, 41. And she arose, the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

Josh. vii, 10. And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

1 Kings viii, 14. And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood.)

2 Kings iv, 29. Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

2 Kings viii, 15. And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.

Luke ix, 53. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusa

lem.

my life is preserved.

Exod. xxxiii, 11. And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.

Num. xiv, 14. And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over

them.....

Deut. v, 4. The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire. . . . .

not a prophet since in Israel like Deut. xxxiv, 10. And there arose unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.

Judges vi, 22. And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of Lord God! for because I have the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O seen an angel of the LORD face to face.

answereth to face, so the heart of Prov. xxvii, 19. As in water face

man to man.

you into the wilderness of the Ezek. xx, 35. And I will bring people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

wered, It is not the manner of Acts xxv, 16. To whom I ansthe Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

1 Cor. xiil, 12. For we now see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part;

FALLING ON FACE, RESULT OF SUDDEN AND OVERPOWERING SENSATION.

Gen. 1, 1, 18. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

face, and bowed herself to the Ruth ii, 10. Then she fell on her ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, ledge of me, seeing I am a stranthat thou shouldest take knowger?

the lad was gone, David arose out 1 Sam. xx, 41. And as soon as of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

bosheth, the son of Jonathan, the 2 Sam. ix, 6. Now when Mephison of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold

thy servant!

2 Sam. xiv, 4, 22. And when the king, she fell on her face to the woman of Tekoah spake to the ground, and did obeisance, and fell to the ground on his face, and said, Help, O king. And Joab bowed himself, and thanked the servant knoweth that I have king: and Joab said, To day thy found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.

And as

1 Kings xviii, 7, 39. Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art when all the people saw it, they thou that my lord Elijah? And The LORD, he is the God; the fell on their faces: and they said, LORD, he is the God.

Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men Isa. xlv, 14. . . . . The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of of stature, shall come over unto they shall come after thee; in thee, and they shall be thine: chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee....

out of the bag, and weigh silver Isa. xlvi, 6. They lavish gold in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

Dan. ii, 46. Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.