What does Corinthians 11:5 mean?

Question

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Answer 1

The apostle Paul called attention to the situation and general practice among the people to whom he wrote and showed that it was natural for a man to have shorter hair than a woman. A woman having her hair shorn, or shaved off, was disgraced. God had given her long hair “instead of a headdress,” but, Paul argued, a woman could not use this natural covering, which was a glory to her, to excuse herself from wearing a head covering, “a sign of authority,” when praying or prophesying in the Christian congregation. By recognizing this fact and wearing a covering in such circumstances, the Christian woman would be acknowledging theocratic headship and showing Christian subjection. She would thus glorify both her husbandly head and God, the Head of all.

Answer 2

It was a Jewish and Mediterranean custom which was practised during the time of Paul. The Catholic Church used to require women to wear a veil when they went to mass. That is no longer required.
The Bible does not always teach. There are many things in the Bible which were placed there for historical, cultural, geographic or poetic reasons. May I also point out that this tradition has nothing to do with our salvation.
Have a blessed and peaceful day!

Answer 3

I am assuming that you mean First Corinthians 11:5, so it means that women are to cover their heads while praying to show honor to God. And if they are not going to cover their heads, then their heads should be shaved because they have dishonored God.

Answer 4

what corinthians? the first or second book?

I Cor 11:5 means that a woman, when she prays, should cover her head.

It's just another way some of the authors of the bible tried to make women 2nd class citizens.

Answer 5

In some places in the days of the apostles, such as in the immoral city of Corinth, women caught committing adultery or fornication were punished by having their hair shaved off. Slave girls had their hair clipped short. Paul apparently draws on this circumstance for illustration, showing that a woman in the Christian congregation who would pray or prophesy with her head uncovered, even though she had her hair as a covering, might as well go the whole way and show her shame in disrespecting God’s headship principle by having her hair completely shaved off. 1Co 11:3-10.

Answer 6

1Cr 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.

The woman should cover her head when she prays and if she does not she dishonors her head (husband or God). If a woman has a shaved head it is a shame to her. He hair is a covering for her.

Answer 7

Which Corinthians?
I - "5And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is just as though her head were shaved."

II - "5But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those "super-apostles."


You need to tell us which book more specifically.

Edit: Truth is correct.

Answer 8

when you cite a verse in the Bible, please copy and paste or write it in the details of your question.

It was an answer, by letter, by Paul to a question that had been asked by the Church of Corinth.

As I understand it. Women had been using the church as a fashion show, to show off their new hair styles, and ornaments in their hair. To such a point that they were disrupting the church services. So Paul included that verse in his letter to the church. It was a doctrine in the Catholic Church, until they realized that it was not based on sound doctrine to apply one particular churches problem and solution to all churches all over the world.


The practice in no longer done in the Catholic church or any protestant church I know of. Menonites, and maybe quackers still practice the ritual of women covering their heads in Church and in Public. -- I am not sure why.

I am not a Catholic. Just in case you wondered.

To understand Paul's input to the Bible, you need to realize that all of his books of the Bible were simply letters to his churches and his friends. He probably thought of them as just that; letters. In 325AD when the many scrolls were reviewed, the church leaders voted to put Paul's letters in the Bible.

Answer 9

It was spoken to those who believed a woman should cover her head. Trying to point out to them that their practice was wrong!

11:13Judge ye in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled? ... it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

Answer 10

Hint: Who is the head of the woman? as also for the same: the head of the man?
Its not talking about baldness.