Neck
צַוַּארStrong’s H6677tsavvar (tsav-var)
Appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsavvar is the Hebrew word usually translated “neck your”, “neck his” and “neck of”. It appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament.
“And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:”
Meaning
- Neck
- Necklace
How it's translated
- neck your 9
- neck his 6
- neck of 5
- neck its 4
- neck 3
- necks of 2
- on necks of 2
- with a neck 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 9
- Genesis 6
- Song of Solomon 4
- Isaiah 4
- Judges 3
- Job 3
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:40And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
- Genesis 33:4And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
- Genesis 41:42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
- Genesis 45:14And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
- Genesis 46:29And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
- Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
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Hebrew dictionary
צַוַּאר tsavvar · neck
neck Aramaic of tsav.var (צַוָּאר "neck" H6677A)
צַוָּרוֹן tsavvaron · necklace
necklace
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.