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Nave Topical Bible
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Thompson Chain Reference
• Hairs, Gray
• Hair
• Gray Hairs
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Hair, of Head, Oils & Gold Dust in, Baldness: & Beard, Absalom's
• Dust On Hair, Mourning
• Beard: & Hair
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Hair, the
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
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• Goats' Hair
Chabad Knowledge Base
• Hair Covering
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
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Holman Bible Dictionary
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• Camel's Hair
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Hair
• Camel's Hair
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Hair (2)
• Hair
• Camel, Camel's Hair
King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Hair in Christian Antiquity
• Hair
People's Bible Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
• Stadia Hairs
• Shag-Haired
• Pele's Hair
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Camel's Hair
• Hair
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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• Hair-Tail
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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• Goats' Hair
• Hair
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Goats Hair
• Hair
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Hair (in Christian Antiquity)
The Jewish Encyclopedia
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Lexicons
• ܡܢܳܬ݂ܳܐ
• ܣܳܥܪܳܐ
• θρίξ , δέρρις
• κείρω
• κεφαλή
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• גָּזַז
• דַּלָּה , דַּלָּה
• מִקְשֶׁה
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HAIR, n.

1. A small filament issuing from the skin of an animal, and from a bulbous root. Each filament contains a tube or hollow within, occupied by a pulp or pith, which is intended for its nutrition,and extends only to that part which is in a state of growth.

When hair means a single filament,it has a plural,hairs.

2. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming an integument or covering as the hair of the head. Hair is the common covering of many beasts. When the filaments are very fine and short, the collection of them is called fur. Wool, also, is a kind of hair. When hair signifies a collection of these animal filaments, it has no plural.

3. Any thing very small or fine or a very small distance the breadth of a hair. He judges to a hair, that is, very exactly.

4. A trifling value. It is not worth a hair.

5. Course order grain the hair falling in a certain direction. Not used.

You go against the hair of your profession.

6. Long, straight and distinct filaments on the surface of plants a species of down or pubescence.