Bald
![Bears attack boys while others and Elisha watch This print, from a medieval French manuscript, shows a relatively bald Elisha cursing the youths as the bears attack. Elijah rides a chariot overhead, having been taken up to heaven shortly before.](/bundles/ncbsw/media/Bears_savaging_the_youths_from_a_French_Manuscript.webp)
'A bald head' signifies the Word deprived of the natural sense, which is the sense of the letter.
(References: 2 Kings 2:23-24; Apocalypse Explained 781)
2 Kings 2:23-24
23
He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!"
24
He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-Two of those youths.