Should an unmarried woman cover her head?
I think the answer is yes. The best explanation I can find is this :
Some recent commentators have suggested that the Greek words for “man” and “woman” used here (ἀνήρ and γυνή) may be understood in the limited sense of “husband and wife,” but for several reasons it is better to understand the whole discussion as pertaining to the relationship between the sexes in general. Ordinarily a pronoun is used with the Greek words when they have the sense “husband” and “wife” (i.e. her man means her husband, and his woman means his wife), but there is no pronoun here. It is very unlikely that Paul is referring only to married men when he says “Every man praying or prophesying with anything down over his head dishonors his head” in verse 4, and if ἀνήρ does not mean “husband” there, we would not expect γυνή to mean “wife” in the following verse. We would expect the terms to be correlated in sense when they occur together — either “man and woman” or “husband and wife,” but not “man and wife” or “husband and woman.”
Taken from HERE I like this site a lot by the way
My thoughts I would add to this- a woman's hair is her glory that is to belong to her husband'. Even tho you may not be married yet it belongs to your future husband. So you should save it for him :)
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not me and my child- my husband doesn't allow me to upload pics of my real family anymore- but this gal has a great site and I really enjoy her posts on headcovering. See more HERE
I think the answer is yes. The best explanation I can find is this :
Some recent commentators have suggested that the Greek words for “man” and “woman” used here (ἀνήρ and γυνή) may be understood in the limited sense of “husband and wife,” but for several reasons it is better to understand the whole discussion as pertaining to the relationship between the sexes in general. Ordinarily a pronoun is used with the Greek words when they have the sense “husband” and “wife” (i.e. her man means her husband, and his woman means his wife), but there is no pronoun here. It is very unlikely that Paul is referring only to married men when he says “Every man praying or prophesying with anything down over his head dishonors his head” in verse 4, and if ἀνήρ does not mean “husband” there, we would not expect γυνή to mean “wife” in the following verse. We would expect the terms to be correlated in sense when they occur together — either “man and woman” or “husband and wife,” but not “man and wife” or “husband and woman.”
Taken from HERE I like this site a lot by the way
My thoughts I would add to this- a woman's hair is her glory that is to belong to her husband'. Even tho you may not be married yet it belongs to your future husband. So you should save it for him :)
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not me and my child- my husband doesn't allow me to upload pics of my real family anymore- but this gal has a great site and I really enjoy her posts on headcovering. See more HERE