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1 Corinthians 11:6 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 11 · verse 6
For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.1 Corinthians 11:6 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 11:6 in context
4Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
5But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
6For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
7For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
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Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- shavenxyraōto shear, shave, to get one's self shavedG3587 →
- womangynēa woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow, a wife, of a betrothed womanG1135 →
- shornkeirōto sheer a sheep, to get or let be shorn, of shearing or cutting short the hair of the…G2751 →
- shameaischronshame, base, dishonourableG149 →
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Paul, having answered the cases put to him, proceeds in this chapter to the redress of grievances. The first verse of the chapter is put, by those who divided the epistle into chapters, as a preface to the rest of the epistle, but seems to have been a more proper close to the last, in which he had enforced the…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16