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Text -- 1 Corinthians 11:6 (NET)

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11:6 For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut off her hair. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, she should cover her head.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Women | Wife | VEIL (1) | SHAME | Hair | Covering the Head | Corinth | CORINTHIANS, FIRST EPISTLE TO THE | BEARD | more
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TSK Synopsis , MHCC , Matthew Henry , Barclay , Constable , College , McGarvey , Lapide

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Robertson: 1Co 11:6 - -- Let her also be shorn ( kai keirasthō ). Aorist middle imperative of keirō , to shear (as sheep). Let her cut her hair close. A single act by the...

Let her also be shorn ( kai keirasthō ).

Aorist middle imperative of keirō , to shear (as sheep). Let her cut her hair close. A single act by the woman.

Robertson: 1Co 11:6 - -- If it is a shame ( ei de aischron ). Condition of first class assumed to be true. Aischron is old adjective from aischos , bareness, disgrace. Clea...

If it is a shame ( ei de aischron ).

Condition of first class assumed to be true. Aischron is old adjective from aischos , bareness, disgrace. Clearly Paul uses such strong language because of the effect on a woman’ s reputation in Corinth by such conduct that proclaimed her a lewd woman. Social custom varied in the world then as now, but there was no alternative in Corinth.

Robertson: 1Co 11:6 - -- To be shorn or shaven ( to keirasthai kai xurasthai ). Articular infinitives subject of copula estin understood, keirasthai first aorist middle, ...

To be shorn or shaven ( to keirasthai kai xurasthai ).

Articular infinitives subject of copula estin understood, keirasthai first aorist middle, xurasthai present middle. Note change in tense.

Robertson: 1Co 11:6 - -- Let her be veiled ( katakaluptesthō ). Present middle imperative of old compound katȧkaluptō , here alone in N.T. Let her cover up herself with...

Let her be veiled ( katakaluptesthō ).

Present middle imperative of old compound katȧkaluptō , here alone in N.T. Let her cover up herself with the veil (down, kata , the Greek says, the veil hanging down from the head).

Vincent: 1Co 11:6 - -- Shorn or shaven ( κείρασθαι ἢ ξυρᾶσθαι ) To have the hair cut close, or to be entirely shaved as with a razor.

Shorn or shaven ( κείρασθαι ἢ ξυρᾶσθαι )

To have the hair cut close, or to be entirely shaved as with a razor.

Wesley: 1Co 11:6 - -- If she will throw off the badge of subjection, let her appear with her hair cut like a man's. But if it be shameful far a woman to appear thus in publ...

If she will throw off the badge of subjection, let her appear with her hair cut like a man's. But if it be shameful far a woman to appear thus in public, especially in a religious assembly, let her, for the same reason, keep on her veil.

JFB: 1Co 11:6 - -- A woman would not like to be "shorn" or (what is worse) "shaven"; but if she chooses to be uncovered (unveiled) in front, let her be so also behind, t...

A woman would not like to be "shorn" or (what is worse) "shaven"; but if she chooses to be uncovered (unveiled) in front, let her be so also behind, that is, "shorn."

JFB: 1Co 11:6 - -- An unbecoming thing (compare 1Co 11:13-15). Thus the shaving of nuns is "a shame."

An unbecoming thing (compare 1Co 11:13-15). Thus the shaving of nuns is "a shame."

Clarke: 1Co 11:6 - -- For if the woman be not covered - If she will not wear a veil in the public assemblies, let her be shorn - let her carry a public badge of infamy: b...

For if the woman be not covered - If she will not wear a veil in the public assemblies, let her be shorn - let her carry a public badge of infamy: but if it be a shame - if to be shorn or shaven would appear, as it must, a badge of infamy, then let her be covered - let her by all means wear a veil. Even in mourning it was considered disgraceful to be obliged to shear off the hair; and lest they should lose this ornament of their heads, the women contrived to evade the custom, by cutting off the ends of it only. Euripides, in Orest., ver. 128, speaking of Helen, who should have shaved her head on account of the death of her sister Clytemnestra, says: ειδετε παρ ακρας ὡς απεθρισεν τριχας, σωζουσα καλλος, εστι δε ἡ παλαι γυνη : "see how she cuts off only the very points of her hair, that she may preserve her beauty, and is just the same woman as before."See the note on 1Co 11:5

In Hindostan a woman cuts off her hair at the death of her husband, as a token of widowhood; but this is never performed by a married woman, whose hair is considered an essential ornament. The veil of the Hindoo women is nothing more than the garment brought over the face, which is always very carefully done by the higher classes of women when they appear in the streets. - Ward’ s Customs.

TSK: 1Co 11:6 - -- but : Num 5:18; Deu 22:5

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Barnes: 1Co 11:6 - -- For if the woman be not covered - If her head be not covered with a veil. Let her also be shorn - Let her long hair be cut off. Let her l...

For if the woman be not covered - If her head be not covered with a veil.

Let her also be shorn - Let her long hair be cut off. Let her lay aside all the usual and proper indications of her sex and rank in life. If it is done in one respect, it may with the same propriety be done in all.

But if it be a shame ... - If custom, nature, and habit; if the common and usual feelings and views among people would pronounce this to be a shame, the other would be pronounced to be a shame also by the same custom and common sense of people.

Let her be covered - With a veil. Let her wear the customary attire indicative of modesty and a sense of subordination. Let her not lay this aside even on any pretence of religion.

Poole: 1Co 11:6 - -- For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: nature itself teacheth, that it is a shameful sight to see a woman revealing the mind and wil...

For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: nature itself teacheth, that it is a shameful sight to see a woman revealing the mind and will of God, by an extraordinary pretended revelation, in so indecent a manner, as with her hair all hanging down; let her hair be either shaven off, or at least cut after the manner of men’ s hair, if she will neither tie it up artificially, so as to make it a covering for her head, nor put on a veil to cover her: for though a woman prophesying from an extraordinary impulse, be not under the common law of women not speaking in the public assembly, but keeping silence; yet she is under the law of nature to do no such grave and solemn actions in such a rude manner, that from the light of nature, or the common account of all that live in that place, she should be judged to be irreverent and brutish in her religious action. From this text a question hath been started: Whether Christian women may lawfully go without any other covering upon their heads than their hair? I must confess, I see not how such a question can have any bottom in this text, where the apostle is not speaking of women’ s ordinary habiting themselves, but only when they prayed and prophesied, and (if I mistake not) when they ministered in prayer and prophecy (as was said before). We now have no such prophetesses; so as I think that question about the lawfulness of women’ s going without any other covering upon their heads than their hair, must be determined from other texts, not this, and is best determined from circumstances; for God having given to the woman her hair for a covering and an ornament, I cannot see how it should be simply unlawful; accidentally it may, from the circumstances of pride in her heart that so dresseth herself, or lust and wantonness in others’ hearts; or other circumstances of ill designs and intentions in the woman so dressing herself.

But if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered if nature teacheth us that it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, it also teacheth us that it is a shame for her to be uncovered, either with her hair, or some artificial covering; which latter seemeth rather to be meant in this place, because divines think, that the face is that part of the head which the apostle here intendeth should be covered in their religious actions, which is not covered with the hair, but with a veil, &c.

Gill: 1Co 11:6 - -- For if the woman be not covered,.... That is, if her head is not covered with some sort of covering, as is the custom of the place where she lives, ...

For if the woman be not covered,.... That is, if her head is not covered with some sort of covering, as is the custom of the place where she lives,

let her also be shorn; let her hair be cut short; let her wear it as men do theirs; and let her see how she will look, and how she will like that, and how she will be looked upon, and liked by others; everybody will laugh at her, and she will be ashamed of herself:

but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven: as it is accounted in all civilized nations: the very Heathens a speak of it as a thing abominable, and of which there should not be one single dreadful example: then let her be covered; with a veil, or any sort of covering in common use.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

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TSK Synopsis: 1Co 11:1-34 - --1 He reproves them, because in holy assemblies,4 their men prayed with their heads covered,6 and women with their heads uncovered;17 and because gener...

MHCC: 1Co 11:2-16 - --Here begin particulars respecting the public assemblies, 1 Corinthians 14. In the abundance of spiritual gifts bestowed on the Corinthians, some abuse...

Matthew Henry: 1Co 11:1-16 - -- 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 w...

Barclay: 1Co 11:2-16 - --This is one of these passages which have a purely local and temporary significance; they look at first sight as if they had only an antiquarian inter...

Constable: 1Co 7:1--16:13 - --III. Questions asked of Paul 7:1--16:12 The remainder of the body of this epistle deals with questions the Corin...

Constable: 1Co 11:2-16 - --C. Propriety in worship 11:2-16 This section and the next (11:17-34) deal with subjects different from m...

Constable: 1Co 11:2-6 - --1. The argument from culture 11:2-6 Paul introduced the first of the two subjects he dealt with in this chapter, the Corinthian women's participation ...

College: 1Co 11:1-34 - --1 CORINTHIANS 11 VI. LITURGICAL ABERRATIONS (11:2-34) A few comments about the literary structure and themes of this new section of 1 Corinthians ar...

McGarvey: 1Co 11:6 - --For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn [with shears] or shaven [with a razor], let her be ve...

Lapide: 1Co 11:1-34 - --CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER The Apostle proceeds to deal with the third point put before him, that of the veiling of women; for the Corinthia...

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: 1 Corinthians (Book Introduction) First Corinthians From Ephesus a.d. 54 Or 55 By Way of Introduction It would be a hard-boiled critic today who would dare deny the genuineness o...

JFB: 1 Corinthians (Book Introduction) The AUTHENTICITY of this Epistle is attested by CLEMENT OF ROME [First Epistle to the Corinthians, 47], POLYCARP [Epistle to the Philippians, 11], and...

JFB: 1 Corinthians (Outline) THE INSCRIPTION; THANKSGIVING FOR THE SPIRITUAL STATE OF THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH; REPROOF OF PARTY DIVISIONS: HIS OWN METHOD OF PREACHING ONLY CHRIST. ...

TSK: 1 Corinthians 11 (Chapter Introduction) Overview 1Co 11:1, He reproves them, because in holy assemblies, 1Co 11:4, their men prayed with their heads covered, 1Co 11:6, and women with the...

Poole: 1 Corinthians 11 (Chapter Introduction) CORINTHAINS CHAPTER 11

MHCC: 1 Corinthians (Book Introduction) The Corinthian church contained some Jews, but more Gentiles, and the apostle had to contend with the superstition of the one, and the sinful conduct ...

MHCC: 1 Corinthians 11 (Chapter Introduction) (1Co 11:1) The apostle, after an exhortation to follow him. (1Co 11:2-16) Corrects some abuses. (1Co 11:17-22) Also contentions, divisions, and diso...

Matthew Henry: 1 Corinthians (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians Corinth was a principal city of Greece, in that partic...

Matthew Henry: 1 Corinthians 11 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter the apostle blames, and endeavours to rectify, some great indecencies and manifest disorders in the church of Corinth; as, I. The ...

Barclay: 1 Corinthians (Book Introduction) A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LETTERS OF PAUL The Letters Of Paul There is no more interesting body of documents in the New Testament than the letter...

Barclay: 1 Corinthians 11 (Chapter Introduction) The Necessary Modesty (1Co_11:2-16) The Wrong Kind Of Feast (1Co_11:17-22) The Lord's Supper (1Co_11:23-34)

Constable: 1 Corinthians (Book Introduction) Introduction Historical Background Corinth had a long history stretching back into the...

Constable: 1 Corinthians (Outline) Outline I. Introduction 1:1-9 A. Salutation 1:1-3 B. Thanksgiving 1:4-9 ...

Constable: 1 Corinthians 1 Corinthians Bibliography Adams, Jay. Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presb...

Haydock: 1 Corinthians (Book Introduction) THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL, THE APOSTLE, TO THE CORINTHIANS. INTRODUCTION. Corinth was the capital of Achaia, a very rich and populous city...

Gill: 1 Corinthians (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 1 CORINTHIANS This was not the first epistle that was written by the apostle to the Corinthians, for we read in this of his having ...

Gill: 1 Corinthians 11 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 1 CORINTHIANS 11 In this chapter the apostle blames both men and women for their indecent appearance in public worship, and admonis...

College: 1 Corinthians (Book Introduction) FOREWORD Since the past few decades have seen an explosion in the number of books, articles, and commentaries on First Corinthians, a brief word to t...

College: 1 Corinthians (Outline) OUTLINE I. INTRODUCTION - 1:1-9 A. Salutation - 1:1-3 B. Thanksgiving - 1:4-9 II. DISUNITY AND COMMUNITY FRAGMENTATION - 1:10-4:21 A. ...

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