'Behead' in the Bible

Within three more days, Pharaoh will behead you and hang you on gallows, where birds will eat your flesh from you."

Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man ahead of him [to behead Elisha]; but before the messenger arrived, Elisha told the elders, “Do you see how this son of [Jezebel] a murderer has sent [a man] to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it securely against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet [just] behind him?”

And Herod having heard, said -- 'He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

and Herod said, 'John I did behead, but who is this concerning whom I hear such things?' and he was seeking to see him.