Neck
מַפְרֶקֶתStrong’s H4665miphreqet (miph-re-qet)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Miphreqet is the Hebrew word usually translated “neck his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.”
Meaning
- Neck
How it's translated
- neck his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַפְרֶקֶת miphreqet · neck
neck
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.