Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Have long hair (komai). Present active subjunctive of komaw (from komh, hair), old verb, same contraction (-ah=ai) as the indicative (aei=ai), but subjunctive here with ean in third class condition. Long hair is a glory to a woman and a disgrace to a man (as we still feel). The long-haired man! There is a papyrus example of a priest accused of letting his hair grow long and of wearing woollen garments.
For a covering (anti peribolaiou). Old word from periballw to fling around, as a mantle (Hebrews 1:12) or a covering or veil as here. It is not in the place of a veil, but answering to (anti, in the sense of anti in John 1:16), as a permanent endowment (dedotai, perfect passive indicative).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 11:15:
1 Corinthians 1:10
1 Corinthians 14:34
Hebrews 1:12
Revelation 9:8
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