צַוָּאר
tsavvâʼr · H6677 · Hebrew · 42 occurrences
Meanings
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neck
The part of the body connecting the head to the rest of the body, a place to wear ornaments but also a yoke, where a stiff neck is associated with insolence and pride
ExamplesGenesis 27:16 And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
Genesis 27:40 “And by your sword you shall live, And you shall serve your brother; But it shall come about when you become restless, That you will break his yoke from your neck.”
Genesis 33:4 Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
37 occurrences in 15 groups
- הוּhis 10
- ךָyour 5
- ךְyour 5
- Other words · 12 groups that occur once or twice (17) 17
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָתָקinsolent words 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 3
- לָבַשׁto put on, to clothe, to wear 1
- מוּשׁto give way 1
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִגְדָּלtower 2
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- צֶבַעdyed cloth 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
24 occurrences in 6 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 26
- בin/on/with 8
- עַדto, as far as, until 6
- אֵלto, toward 2
- מִןfrom 1
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- חֶלְקָהportion 1
- טוּבgoodness, good things 1
- מוֹסֵרthong 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- τράχηλος tráchēlos · G5137 · neck, to risk one’s life
- Greek τράχηλος renders Hebrew צַוָּאר as the standard anatomical term for neck/throat, maintaining both literal body-part and figurative life-risking senses across the translation boundary.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Jewellery001003001001011
- This domain's connection to צַוָּאר is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of the neck itself rather than an ornament worn on it, though the gold necklace Pharaoh places on Joseph's neck in Genesis 41:42 shows the two closely associated.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6677. tsavvar צַוָּאר noun masculinePsa 75:6 neck, back of neck; — absolute ׳צ Isa 8:8…
צַוָּאר noun masculinePsa 75:6 neck, back of neck; — absolute ׳צ Isa 8:8 +, construct צַוַּאר Jer 28:10 Jer 28:3t. 28; suffix צַוָּארִי Lam 1:14, צַוָּרָם Neh 3:5, etc.; plural construct צַוְּארֵי Jdg 8:21 +; suffix צַוָּארָיו Gen 27:16 +, צַוְּארֵיכֶם Jer 27:12, צַוְּארֹתַיכֶם Mic 2:3; —
l. neck, especially back of neck, of man, wearing chain as ornament Gen 41:42 (E), so of woman Son 1:10, compare Jdg 5:30 (read perhaps צַוָּארַי for רֵ֑י), elsewhere in Genesis usually plural intensive, of individual, עַלצֿ ׳נָפַל Judg 45:14 (E), Judg 46:29; Judg 33:4 (Qr; Kt singular), so עַלצֿ ׳בָּכָה Judg 45:14; Judg 46:29 (all J); צַוַּארָיו חֶלְקַת Judg 27:16 smooth part of neck (J); neck of beautiful woman Son 4:4; Son 7:5; neck as pressed by foot of conqueror Jos 10:24 (twice in verse) (JE); place of yoke Gen 27:40 (singular; J), Deu 28:48; Isa 10:27; Jer 27:2, Jer 27:8, Jer 27:11, Jer 27:12; Jer 28:10-11, Jer 28:12, Jer 28:14; Jer 30:8; of transgressions as yoke Lam 1:14; place of bonds Isa 52:2; of bearing load, Neh 3:5 (figurative), hence calamity as burden Mic 2:3; neck as smitten with sword Ezekiel 21:34; ׳עַדצֿ as measurement of height (depth; in figure) Isa 8:8; Isa 30:8; Hab 3:13; ׳בְּצ עָתָק figurative Psa 75:6 speak not with arrogant neck (si Vera l.; but read perhaps בַּצּוּר against the Rock, ᵐ5. κατὰ τοῦ θεοῦ, Bae Hup-Now Che Kau); of wicked, rushing against God Job 15:26. — נִרְדָּ֔פְנוּ עַלצַֿוָּארֵנוּ Lam 5:5 is dubious; Matthes Löhr Bae עַלוֿגו ׳עֹל; Bu צַוּ ׳עֹל, and הֲדָפָנוּ or יֶהְדְּפֵנוּ for ׳נִר.
2 neck of animals, camels (wearing ornaments) Jdg 8:21, Jdg 8:26; heifer Hos 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 מַצַּוָּרֹנָ֑יִִךְ עֲנָק אַחַד Son 4:9.
צוֺר Tyre see צֹר. צַוָּר צַוְּרֹנִים see צַוָּאר.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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