צַוָּאר
neck
‘neck’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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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).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 22 times (54%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 14 times (34%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 5 times (12%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 41 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6677 appears — 38 distinct verses across 14 books. 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.
Genesis 6 verses
- Genesis 27:16 צַוָּארָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms She put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
- Genesis 27:40 צַוָּארֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, That you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."
- Genesis 33:4 צַוָּארָ֖/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
- Genesis 41:42 צַוָּארֽ/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,
- Genesis 45:14 צַוְּארֵ֥י צַוָּארָֽי/ו n c mp cs n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
- Genesis 46:29 צַוָּארָ֔י/ו צַוָּארָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Joseph made ready 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.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 1 verse
Judges 3 verses
- Judges 5:30 לְ/צַוְּארֵ֥י prep + n c mp cs Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, two ladies to every man; To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?
- Judges 8:21 בְּ/צַוְּארֵ֥י prep + n c mp cs Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise you, and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength. Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.
- Judges 8:26 בְּ/צַוְּארֵ֥י prep + n c mp cs The weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Job 3 verses
- Job 15:26 בְּ/צַוָּ֑אר prep + n c ms He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;
- Job 39:19 צַוָּאר֣/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
- Job 41:22 בְּֽ֭/צַוָּאר/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms In his neck there is strength. Terror dances before him.
Psalms 1 verse
Song of Solomon 4 verses
- Song of Solomon 1:10 צַוָּארֵ֖/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, Your neck with strings of jewels.
- Song of Solomon 4:4 צַוָּארֵ֔/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Your neck is like David's tower built for an armory, Whereon there hang a thousand shields, All the shields of the mighty men.
- Song of Solomon 4:9 מִ/צַּוְּרֹנָֽיִ/ךְ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2fs You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, With one chain of your neck.
- Song of Solomon 7:4 צַוָּארֵ֖/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
Isaiah 4 verses
- Isaiah 8:8 צַוָּ֖אר n c ms and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
- Isaiah 10:27 צַוָּארֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms It shall happen in that day, that his burden shall depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.
- Isaiah 30:28 צַוָּ֣אר n c ms and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causes to err [shall be] in the jaws of the peoples.
- Isaiah 52:2 צַוָּארֵ֔/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 9 verses
- Jeremiah 27:2 צַוָּארֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;
- Jeremiah 27:8 צַוָּאר֔/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
- Jeremiah 27:11 צַוָּאר֛/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
- Jeremiah 27:12 צַוְּארֵי/כֶ֜ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp I spoke 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 צַוַּ֖אר n c ms cs Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.
- Jeremiah 28:11 צַוַּ֖אר n c ms cs Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his way.
- Jeremiah 28:12 צַוַּ֛אר n c ms cs Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
- Jeremiah 28:14 צַוַּ֣אר n c ms cs For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on 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 animals of the field also.
- Jeremiah 30:8 צַוָּארֶ֔/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;
Lamentations 2 verses
- Lamentations 1:14 צַוָּארִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
- Lamentations 5:5 צַוָּארֵ֨/נוּ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cp Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Ezekiel 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
Habakkuk 1 verse
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.
צואר — transliterated tsavvâʼr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “neck.” Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 27:16. It appears 38 verses across 14 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. It shares a root with צור, מצור and צור. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6677 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 →
- 38
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 38 distinct verses.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #891
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 891 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 38 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 9 verses 24%
- Genesis 6 verses 16%
- Song of Solomon 4 verses 11%
By section of the Old Testament
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 38 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 20 verses · 53%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 11 verses · 29%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 7 verses · 18%
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 26×, Necks 8×, Off thy neck 3×
- American Standard Version: Neck 19×, Necks 5×, Off thy neck 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Neck 26×, Necks 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Neck 28×, Necks 5×, Necks of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6677 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6677 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6677 across 39 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6677 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. neck, especially back of neck, of man, wearing chain as ornament Gn 41:42 (E), so of woman Ct 1:10, cf. Ju 5:30 (read perhaps צַוָּארַי for -רֵי), elsewhere in Gn usually pl. intens., of individual, נָפַל עַל־צ׳ 45:14 (E), 46:29; 33:4 (Qr; Kt sg.), so בָּכָה עַל־צ׳ 45:14; 46:29 (all J); חֶלְקַת צַוָּארָיו 27:16 smooth part of neck (J); neck of beautiful woman Ct 4:4; 7:5; neck as pressed by foot of conqueror Jos 10:24(×2) (JE); place of yoke Gn 27:40 (sg.; J), Dt 28:48; Is 10:27; Je 27:2, 8, 11, 12; 28:10, 11, 12, 14; 30:8; of transgressions as yoke La 1:14; place of bonds Is 52:2; of bearing load, Ne 3:5 (fig.), hence calamity as burden Mi 2:3; neck as smitten with sword Ez 21:34; עַד־צ׳ as measurement of height (depth; in fig.) Is 8:8; 30:28; Hb 3:13; בְּצ׳ עָתָק fig. ψ 75:6 speak not with arrogant neck (si vera l.; but read perhaps בַּצּוּר against the Rock, 𝔊 κατὰ τοῦ θεοῦ, Bae Hup-Now Che Kau); of wicked, rushing against God Jb 15:26.—עַל־צַוָּארֵנוּ נִרְדָּ֔פְנוּ La 5:5 is dubious; Matthes Löhr Bae עֹל עַל־וגו׳; Bu עֹל צַוּ׳, and הֲדָפָנוּ or יֶהְדְּפֵנוּ for נִר׳. e.g. Genesis 41:42
- 2. neck of animals, camels (wearing ornaments) Ju 8:21, 26; heifer Ho 10:11 (i.e. place of yoke, in fig. of Ephr.); horse Jb 39:19, crocodile 41:14. e.g. Judges 8:21
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. ψ 75:6 neck, back of neck;—abs. צ׳ Is 8:8 +, cstr. צַוַּאר Je 28:10 + 3 times; sf. צַוָּארִי La 1:14, צַוָּרָם Ne 3:5, etc.; pl. cstr. צַוְּארֵי Ju 8:21 +; sf. צַוָּארָיו Gn 27:16 +, צַוְּארֵיכֶם Je 27:12, †צַוְּארֹתֵיכֶם Mi 2:3;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צור (tsûwr) (H6696) — to besiege.
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 33 distinct written forms H6677 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6677, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 37 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 38 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 27:16
- Deuteronomy 28:48
- Joshua 10:24
- Judges 5:30
- Job 15:26
- Psalms 75:5
- Song of Solomon 1:10
- Isaiah 8:8
- Jeremiah 27:2
- Lamentations 1:14
- Ezekiel 21:29
- Micah 2:3
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
