Tsavvâʼr — H6677

H6677 · Hebrew — צואר

Pronunciation: tsav-vawr'

Other spellings: tsavvâr צַוָּר, tsavvârôn צַוָּרֹן

Definition

masculine noun

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

  1. neck, back of neck
    1. neck, back of neck (of man)
    2. neck (of animals)

Usually translated as

neck

Origin

or tsavvâr; (Nehemiah 3:5), or tsavvârôn; (Song of Solomon 4:9), or (feminine) tsavvâʼrâh; (Micah 2:3), intensively from H6696 in the sense of binding

Occurrences

Tsavvâʼr occurs 43 times in 40 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (6), Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (1), Judges (3), Nehemiah (1), Job (3), Psalms (1), Song of Songs (4), Isaiah (4), Jeremiah (10), Lamentations (2), Ezekiel (1), Hosea (1), Micah (1), Habakkuk (1)

Strong's Lexicon — T