{"id":23156,"date":"2022-09-28T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/baldness-natural-or-artificial\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:16:11","slug":"baldness-natural-or-artificial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/baldness-natural-or-artificial\/","title":{"rendered":"BALDNESS (NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BALDNESS (NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL)<\/h2>\n<p>It was customary among eastern nations to cut off the hair of the head, or to shave the head, as a token of mourning, on the death of a relative, Job 1:20  Jer 16:6 . This was forbidden to the Israelites, in consequence of its being a heathen custom, Deu 14:1 . Natural baldness was treated with contempt, because it exposed a man to the suspicion of leprosy. The children at Bethel cried after Elisha, &#8220;Go up, thou bald head,&#8221; 2Ki 2:23 . While they indicated by this epithet great contempt for him as a prophet of the Lord, they probably scoffed at the same time at the miracle of Elijah&#8217;s ascension.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALDNESS (NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL) It was customary among eastern nations to cut off the hair of the head, or to shave the head, as a token of mourning, on the death of a relative, Job 1:20 Jer 16:6 . This was forbidden to the Israelites, in consequence of its being a heathen custom, Deu 14:1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/baldness-natural-or-artificial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BALDNESS (NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}