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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Bald

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

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Deuteronomy 14:1 (a) Baldness in this Scripture would indicate that the people were opposed to GOD's judgments and GOD's dealings and would prove it to others by making themselves bald. (See also Isaiah 22:12).

Isaiah 3:24 (a) This is a sign that GOD had forsaken His people and left them to the will of their enemies. (See also Jeremiah 47:5; Isaiah 15:2; Ezekiel 7:18).

Jeremiah 16:6 (b) This is a type of despair in sorrow for which there is no remedy.

Jeremiah 48:37 (b) This represents great sorrow and deep grief; the loss of the hair being used as a type of long, weary lamenting.

Bibliography Information
Watson, Walter. Entry for 'Bald'. Wilson's Dictoinary of Bible Types. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​wdt/​b/bald.html. 1957.
 
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