tsavar · neck

What it means

tsavar (צַוָּאר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “neck”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The neck.
2. A jewel worn hanging around the throat.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• neck ×32
• necks ×8
• necklaces ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×2
• Judges×3
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×4
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×9
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 27:16

  And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

• Genesis 27:40

  By your sword you will live, and your brother you will serve; but it will be when you break loose that you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

• Genesis 33:4

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

• Genesis 41:42

  Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on the hand of Joseph; he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a chain of gold around his neck.

• Genesis 45:14

  He fell on the neck of Benjamin his brother and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

• Genesis 46:29

  Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He appeared to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.

• Deuteronomy 28:48

  you will serve your enemies, whom YHWH will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of everything; and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

• Joshua 10:24

  And it came about, when they brought these kings out to Joshua, that Joshua called to all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the men of war who had gone with him, “Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came near and put their feet on their necks.

• Judges 5:30

  ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil? A girl, two girls for each head of a man; spoil of dyed cloth for Sisera, spoil of dyed cloth embroidered; dyed cloth, two embroideries, for the necks of the spoil.’

• Judges 8:21

  Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon rose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescents that were on the necks of their camels.

• Judges 8:26

  The weight of the earrings of gold that he requested was a thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents, the pendants, and the garments of purple that were on the kings of Midian, and besides the necklaces that were on the necks of their camels.

• Nehemiah 3:5

  And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles did not put their neck to the service of their lords.

• Job 15:26

  he runs at him with his neck erect, with the thickness of the bosses of his shields;

• Job 39:19

  Do you give the horse might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

• Job 41:22

  In its neck strength lodges, and before it faintness leaps.

• Psalms 75:5

  do not lift up on high your horn; nor speak with an insolent neck.’”

• Song of Songs 1:10

  Lovely are your cheeks with ornaments, your neck with necklaces.

• Song of Songs 4:4

  Like the tower of David is your neck, built in rows; a thousand shields hang on it, all the shields of the mighty men.

• Song of Songs 4:9

  You have stolen my heart, my sister, bride; you have stolen my heart with one of your eyes, with one bead of your necklaces.

• Song of Songs 7:4

  Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon that looks toward Damascus.

• Isaiah 8:8

  and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through, it will reach up to the neck; and the spreading of its wings will be the fullness of the breadth of your land, Immanuel!”

• Isaiah 10:27

  And it will happen on that day that his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be destroyed because of fatness.

• Isaiah 30:28

  and his blast like a torrent that sweeps away, that reaches up to the neck, to sift the nations with a sieve of falsehood; and a bridle that leads astray is on the jaws of the peoples.

• Isaiah 52:2

  Shake yourself from the dust, rise up, sit, Jerusalem; free yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.

• Jeremiah 27:2

  Thus YHWH said to me: “Make for yourself straps and yokes, and put them on your neck,

• Jeremiah 27:8

  And it will be: the nation or the kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence I will punish that nation, declares YHWH, until I have finished off them by his hand.

• Jeremiah 27:11

  But the nation that brings its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, I will leave it on its own ground, declares YHWH, and it will till it and dwell in it.’”

• Jeremiah 27:12

  And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke 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

  Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.

• Jeremiah 28:11

  And Hananiah spoke before the eyes of all the people, saying: “Thus says YHWH: Like this I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two years' time from off the neck of all the nations.” And Jeremiah the prophet went his way.

• Jeremiah 28:12

  And the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, saying:

• Jeremiah 28:14

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: A yoke of iron I have put on the neck of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him; and even the animals of the field I have given him.’”

• Jeremiah 30:8

  And it will happen in that day, declares YHWH Tsevaot, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and your bonds I will tear apart; and strangers will no longer make him serve them,

• Lamentations 1:14

  Bound is the yoke of my transgressions; by his hand they are woven together; they have come up on my neck; he has made my strength stumble; Adonai has given me into the hands of those against whom I am not able to rise.

• Lamentations 5:5

  On our neck we are pursued; we are weary, and no rest is given to us.

• Ezekiel 21:29

  while they see for you emptiness, while they divine for you a lie, to put you on the necks of the wicked mortally wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

• Micah 2:3

  Therefore thus says YHWH: “Look, I am devising against this family an evil from which you will not remove your necks, and you will not walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

• Habakkuk 3:13

  You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed; you shattered the head of the house of the wicked, laying bare the foundation up to the neck. Selah.

And 3 more times.