Neck
גַּרְגְּרוֹתStrong’s H1621gargerot (gar-ge-rot)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gargerot is the Hebrew word usually translated “neck your” and “necks your”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.”
Meaning
- Neck (always fig.)
How it's translated
- for neck your 2
- necks your 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
גַּרְגְּרוֹת gargerot · neck
neck (always fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “neck” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NECK, noun
[G. This word is properly the nape or vertebrae of the neck behind, and is so rendered in other languages, Latin that is a knob or mass.]
- The part of an animals body which is between the head and the trunk, and connects them.
- A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts; as the neck of land between Boston and Roxbury.
- The long slender part of a vessel,, as a retort; or of a plant, as a gourd; or of any instrument, as a guitar.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.