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צַוָּאר H6677

H6677 is the Hebrew word צַוָּאר, transliterated tsavvâʼr and said tsav-vawr'. The King James Version most often renders it neck.

Word: צַוָּארTransliteration: tsavvâʼrSaid: tsav-vawr'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 31 verses

What it means

the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound).

Where it comes from

or צַוָּר; (Nehemiah 3:5), or צַוָּרֹןlemma צַוָּרן missing vowel, corrected to צַוָּרֹן; (Song of Solomon 4:9), or (feminine) צַוָּארָה; (Micah 2:3), intensively from H6696 (צוּר) in the sense of binding.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 32 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

neck 19×necks 6×off thy neck 2×meet for the necks 1×even on his neck 1×jewels thy neck 1×even to the neck 1×off the neck 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: neck.

Verses using צַוָּאר

All 31 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 33:4 · KJV

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

Genesis 45:14 · KJV

And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

Genesis 46:29 · KJV

And 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 28:48 · KJV

Therefore 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.

Joshua 10:24 · KJV

And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.

Judges 5:30 · KJV

Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

Nehemiah 3:5 · KJV

And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their LORD.

Job 15:26 · KJV

He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

Job 39:19 · KJV

Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

Job 41:22 · KJV

In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

Song of Solomon 1:10 · KJV

Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.

Song of Solomon 4:4 · KJV

Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

Song of Solomon 7:4 · KJV

Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

Isaiah 8:8 · KJV

And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

Isaiah 10:27 · KJV

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Isaiah 30:28 · KJV

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

Isaiah 52:2 · KJV

Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Jeremiah 27:8 · KJV

And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

Jeremiah 27:11 · KJV

But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

Jeremiah 27:12 · KJV

I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

Jeremiah 28:10 · KJV

Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it.

Jeremiah 28:11 · KJV

And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

Jeremiah 28:12 · KJV

Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

Jeremiah 28:14 · KJV

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.

Jeremiah 30:8 · KJV

For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

Lamentations 1:14 · KJV

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

Lamentations 5:5 · KJV

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

Ezekiel 21:29 · KJV

Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.

Hosea 10:11 · KJV

And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

Micah 2:3 · KJV

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

Habakkuk 3:13 · KJV

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

Common questions

What does Strong's H6677 mean?

H6677 is the Hebrew word צַוָּאר (tsavvâʼr), meaning the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound).

How is H6677 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it neck (19 times), necks (6 times), off thy neck (2 times), meet for the necks (1 time), even on his neck (1 time), among others.

How many times does H6677 appear in the Bible?

צַוָּאר (tsavvâʼr) is tagged in 31 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H6677 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: or צַוָּר; (Nehemiah 3:5), or צַוָּרֹןlemma צַוָּרן missing vowel, corrected to צַוָּרֹן; (Song of Solomon 4:9), or (feminine) צַוָּארָה; (Micah 2:3), intensively from H6696 (צוּר) in the sense of binding.

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