Lev 21:5 | TSK | e4.org | not make baldness This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head ( ), and seems to have been performed in honour of some idol. , ; ; , ; , ; ; ; the corner The Hebrew peath zakon , may denote the whiskers; as the Syriac phatho signifies. These are by the Arabs, according to Niebuhr, still cut entirely off, or worn quite short; and hence they are called by Jeremiah, χφεφι τΰδ , those with cropped whiskers. Perhaps some superstition, of which we are ignorant, was connected with this; but whether or not, it was the object of Moses to keep the Israelites distinct from other nations.

‏ Leviticus 21:5

not make baldness This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head (Lev 19:27), and seems to have been performed in honour of some idol. Lev 10:6, Lev 19:27-28; Deut 14:1; Isa 15:2, Isa 22:12; Jer 16:6, Jer 48:37; Ezek 44:20; Amos 8:10; Mic 1:16

the corner The Hebrew peath zakon, may denote the whiskers; as the Syriac phatho signifies. These are by the Arabs, according to Niebuhr, still cut entirely off, or worn quite short; and hence they are called by Jeremiah, χφεφι τΰδ, those with cropped whiskers. Perhaps some superstition, of which we are ignorant, was connected with this; but whether or not, it was the object of Moses to keep the Israelites distinct from other nations.