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1 Corinthians 11:5

But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

KJV

πᾶσα δὲ γυνὴ προσευχομένη ἢ προφητεύουσα ἀκατακαλύπτῳ τῇ κεφαλῇ καταισχύνει τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτῆς· ἓν γάρ ἐστιν καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ τῇ ἐξυρημένῃ.

Greek NT

Omnis autem mulier orans, aut prophetans non velato capite, deturpat caput suum : unum enim est ac si decalvetur.

Vulgate

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

ASV

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καταισχύνω
kataischuno
verb · 13×
κεφαλή
kephale
noun · 75×
ξυράω
xurao
verb · 3×
προσεύχομαι
proseuchomai
verb · 85×
προφητεύω
propheteuo
verb · 28×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἀκατακάλυπτος
akatakaluptos
adjective · 2×
e
particle · 346×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: αὐτῆς | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτῆς | RP: ἑαυτῆς
  • αὐτῆςSBLGNT
  • αὐτῆςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἑαυτῆςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Doctrines that cite this verse

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 14:34 — Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
  • 1Cor 14:34 — Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
  • Acts 2:17 — And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old
  • Acts 21:9 — And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.
  • Deut 21:12 — Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
  • Exod 15:20 — And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
  • Gen 24:65 — For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
  • Luke 2:36 — And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;