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Lexicon :: Strong's H6677 - ṣaûā'r

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צַוָּאר
Transliteration
ṣaûā'r
Pronunciation
tsav-vawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Intensively from צוּר (H6696) in the sense of binding
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TWOT Reference: 1897a

Strong’s Definitions

צַוָּאר tsavvâʼr, tsav-vawr'; or
צַוָּר tsavvâr (Nehemiah 3:5), tsav-vawr'; or
צַוָּרֹן tsavvârôn (Song of Solomon 4:9), tsav-vaw-rone'; or (feminine)
צַוָּארָה tsavvâʼrâh; (Micah 2:3), tsav-vaw-raw'; intensively from H6696 in the sense of binding; the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound):—neck.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x

The KJV translates Strong's H6677 in the following manner: neck (42x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x
The KJV translates Strong's H6677 in the following manner: neck (42x).

  1. neck, back of neck

    1. neck, back of neck (of man)

    2. neck (of animals)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צַוָּאר tsavvâʼr, tsav-vawr'; or
צַוָּר tsavvâr (Nehemiah 3:5), tsav-vawr'; or
צַוָּרֹן tsavvârôn (Song of Solomon 4:9), tsav-vaw-rone'; or (feminine)
צַוָּארָה tsavvâʼrâh; (Micah 2:3), tsav-vaw-raw'; intensively from H6696 in the sense of binding; the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound):—neck.
STRONGS H6677: Abbreviations
† צַוָּאר noun masculinePsalm 75:6 neck, back of neck; — absolute צ׳ Isaiah 8:8 +, construct צַוַּאר Jeremiah 28:10 + 3 times 28; suffix צַוָּארִי Lamentations 1:14, צַוָּרָם Nehemiah 3:5, etc.; plural construct צַוְּארֵי Judges 8:21 +; suffix צַוָּארָיו Genesis 27:16 +, צַוְּארֵיכֶם Jeremiah 27:12, † צַוְּארֹתַיכֶם Micah 2:3; —
1. neck, especially back of neck, of man, wearing chain as ornament Genesis 41:42 (E), so of woman Songs 1:10, compare Judges 5:30 (read perhaps צַוָּארַי for רֵי-), elsewhere in Genesis usually plural intensive, of individual, נָפַל עַלצֿ׳ Genesis 45:14 (E), Genesis 46:29; Genesis 33:4 (Qr; Kt singular), so בָּכָה עַלצֿ׳ Genesis 45:14; Genesis 46:29 (all J); חֶלְקַת צַוַּארָיו Genesis 27:16 smooth part of neck (J); neck of beautiful woman Songs 4:4; Songs 7:5; neck as pressed by foot of conqueror Joshua 10:24 (twice in verse) (JE); place of yoke Genesis 27:40 (singular; J), Deuteronomy 28:48; Isaiah 10:27; Jeremiah 27:2, 8, 11, 12; Jeremiah 28:10, 11, 12, 14; Jeremiah 30:8; of transgressions as yoke Lamentations 1:14; place of bonds Isaiah 52:2; of bearing load, Nehemiah 3:5 (figurative), hence calamity as burden Micah 2:3; neck as smitten with sword Ezekiel 21:34 [Ezekiel 21:29]; עַדצֿ׳ as measurement of height (depth; in figure) Isaiah 8:8; Isaiah 30:8; Habakkuk 3:13; עָתָק בְּצ׳ figurative Psalm 75:6 speak not with arrogant neck (si vera lectio; but read perhaps בַּצּוּר against the Rock, Greek Version of the LXX. κατὰ τοῦ θεοῦ, Bae Hup-Now Che Kau); of wicked, rushing against God Job 15:26. — עַלצַֿוָּארֵנוּ נִרְדָּ֔פְנוּ Lamentations 5:5 is dubious; Matthes Löhr Bae עֹל עַלוֿגו׳; Bu עֹל צַוּ׳, and הֲדָפָנוּ or יֶהְדְּפֵנוּ for נִר׳.
2. neck of animals, camels (wearing ornaments) Judges 8:21, 26; heifer Hosea 10:11 (i. e. place of yoke, in figure of Ephraim); horse Job 39:19, crocodile Job 41:14.

† [צַוָּרוֺן] noun [masculine] plural necklace; — suffix אַחַד מִצַּוְּרֹנָ֑יִךְ עֲנָק Songs 4:9.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

27:16; 27:16; 27:40; 33:4; 41:42; 45:14; 45:14; 46:29; 46:29

Deuteronomy

28:48

Joshua

10:24

Judges

5:30; 8:21; 8:21

Nehemiah

3:5; 3:5

Job

15:26; 39:19; 41:14

Psalms

75:6; 75:6

Song of Songs

1:10; 4:4; 4:9; 7:5

Isaiah

8:8; 8:8; 10:27; 30:8; 52:2

Jeremiah

27:2; 27:12; 28:10; 28:10; 30:8

Lamentations

1:14; 1:14; 5:5

Ezekiel

21:29

Hosea

10:11

Micah

2:3; 2:3

Habakkuk

3:13

H6677

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Strong's Number H6677 matches the Hebrew צַוָּאר (ṣaûā'r),
which occurs 41 times in 38 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:16 - And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40 - By your sword you shall live,
and you shall serve your brother;
but when you grow restless
you shall break his yoke from your neck.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:4 - But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:42 - Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:14 - Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:29 - Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:24 - And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, “Come near; put your feet on the necks of these kings.” Then they came near and put their feet on their necks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - ‘Have they not found and divided the spoil?—
A womb or two for every man;
spoil of dyed materials for Sisera,
spoil of dyed materials embroidered,
two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength.” And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:26 - And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels[fn] of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:5 - And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles would not stoop to serve their Lord.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:26 - running stubbornly against him
with a thickly bossed shield;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:19 - “Do you give the horse his might?
Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:22 - In his neck abides strength,
and terror dances before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 75:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:5 - do not lift up your horn on high,
or speak with haughty neck.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:10 - Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,
your neck with strings of jewels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:4 - Your neck is like the tower of David,
built in rows of stone;[fn]
on it hang a thousand shields,
all of them shields of warriors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:9 - You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride;
you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 - Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes are pools in Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon,
which looks toward Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:8 - and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:27 - And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - his breath is like an overflowing stream
that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2 - Shake yourself from the dust and arise;
be seated, O Jerusalem;
loose the bonds from your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:2 - Thus the LORD said to me: “Make yourself straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - “‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:11 - But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the LORD.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:12 - To Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people and live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:10 - Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years.” But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:12 - Sometime after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke-bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:14 - For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:8 - “And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 - “My transgressions were bound[fn] into a yoke;
by his hand they were fastened together;
they were set upon my neck;
he caused my strength to fail;
the Lord gave me into the hands
of those whom I cannot withstand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:5 - Our pursuers are at our necks;
we are weary; we are given no rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:3 - Therefore thus says the LORD:
behold, against this family I am devising disaster,[fn]
from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you shall not walk haughtily,
for it will be a time of disaster.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:13 - You went out for the salvation of your people,
for the salvation of your anointed.
You crushed the head of the house of the wicked,
laying him bare from thigh to neck.[fn] Selah
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