צַוַּאר
neck
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6676 appears in the Book of Daniel — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel
- Daniel 5:7 צַוְּארֵ֔/הּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation of it, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:16 צַוְּארָ֔/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:29 צַוְּארֵ֑/הּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, צואר (tsavvaʼr) means “neck.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (75% of all occurrences). First canonically at Daniel 5:7, it enters the text early. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6676 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 75%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Neck 3×
- American Standard Version: Neck 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Neck 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Neck 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6676 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6676 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6676 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6676 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- neck
Word origin
Derived from צואר (tsavvâʼr) (H6677) — neck.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
צַוָּאר
- (צָוַר = צָבַר, v. סַוָּאר)
- 1. pile. Ohol. III, 7, v. סַוָּאר.
- 2. (b. h.) neck, esp. the front of the neck, throat, opp. עוֹרֶף. Ḥull. I, 4. Sabb. 58ᵃ שבצַוָּארוֹ, v. חוֹתָם; a. fr.—Ab. Zar. 30ᵃ, a. e. עלי ועל צַוָּארִי upon me and my throat, i.e. I take the responsibility. Y. Snh. VI, 23ᵇ bot. דמו תלוי בצַוַּאר עדים his blood be suspended from the neck of the witnesses, i.e. they will have to answer for the innocent blood; Bab. Snh. 44ᵇ ויהא קולר תלוי בצ׳ עדים, v. קוֹלָר. Cant. R. to IV, 4 צַוָּארֵךְ זה בית וכ׳ ‘thy neck’ (ib.) means the Temple; שכל הימים … היה צַוָּארָן … פשוט וכ׳ for as long as the Temple stood, Israel’s neck was stretched (uplifted) among the nations &c. Lam. R. to V, 5 [read:] על שבגדנו בצַוָּארֵנוּ בא יום צרה because we were faithless to our ‘neck’ (the Temple), the day of distress came; a. fr.—[Sabb. 90ᵇ צַוָּארֵי דקל Ms. M., v. צוּר III.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H6676 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| צַוְּארֵ֑/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 5:29 | 1 |
| צַוְּארֵ֔/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 5:7 | 1 |
| צַוְּארָ֔/ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 5:16 | 1 |
| צַוָּארָ֑/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Hosea 10:11 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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