Bible Verses About Baldness
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for baldness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,385 votes, led by 2 Kings 2:23-24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Baldness
2 Kings 2:23-2474 votes
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.
Leviticus 13:4171 votes
And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
Micah 1:1671 votes
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Isaiah 3:2470 votes
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Leviticus 21:557 votes
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
2 Kings 2:2354 votes
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.
Ezekiel 7:1850 votes
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Jeremiah 48:3744 votes
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Acts 18:1840 votes
And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
Amos 8:1038 votes
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Jeremiah 47:537 votes
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Isaiah 3:16-2435 votes
Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Isaiah 22:1235 votes
And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Jeremiah 16:635 votes
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
Ezekiel 27:3135 votes
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
Deuteronomy 14:132 votes
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Leviticus 13:4029 votes
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
Isaiah 15:229 votes
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Isaiah 3:1725 votes
Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
Ezekiel 29:1823 votes
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:
Acts 21:2423 votes
Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be 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.
Numbers 6:918 votes
And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
Isaiah 1:1-3118 votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Luke 12:718 votes
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Leviticus 13:40-4116 votes
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
What does the Bible say about baldness?
Readers most often cite 2 Kings 2:23-24 on the subject of baldness. Across 1,385 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 13:41, Micah 1:16, Isaiah 3:24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.