Neck
עֹ֫רֶףStrong’s H6203oreph (o-reph)
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Oreph is the Hebrew word usually translated “neck”, “neck their” and “neck your”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.”
Meaning
- Neck, back of the neck, backback of the neck · stiff of neck, obstinate (fig.)
How it's translated
- neck 8
- neck their 6
- a neck 5
- neck your 3
- a back 3
- on neck of 1
- neck its 1
- and neck your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 7
- Exodus 5
- Deuteronomy 4
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Nehemiah 3
- Joshua 2
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 23:27I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
- Exodus 32:9And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- Exodus 33:3Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
- Exodus 33:5For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
- Exodus 34:9And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
- Leviticus 5:8And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
Hebrew dictionary
עֹ֫רֶף oreph · neck
1) neck, back of the neck, back 1a) back of the neck 1a1) of fleeing foe 1a2) of apostasy (fig.) 1b) stiff of neck, obstinate (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.