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Strong's H6677 צַוָּאר (tsavvar)

Tsavvar means “neck” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6677
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 39
Books 15

Strong's H6677 Quick Answer

Strong's H6677 צַּוָּאר צַּוָּר צַּוָּרוֹן צַּוָּארָה (tsavva'r) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsavva'r (tsav-vawr') (or tsavvar (Nehemiah 3) n-m. 1. the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound) [intensively from H6696 in the sense of binding] It has 39 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include neck and necks. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
tsavva'r (tsav-vawr') (or tsavvar (Nehemiah 3) n-m. 1. the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound) [intensively from H6696 in the sense of binding]
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
neck and necks

Meaning and Definition

tsavva'r (tsav-vawr') (or tsavvar (Nehemiah 3) n-m. 1. the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound) [intensively from H6696 in the sense of binding] KJV: neck. Root(s): H6696

Original Word
צַּוָּאר צַּוָּר צַּוָּרוֹן צַּוָּארָה
Transliteration
tsavva'r
Derivation
Root: צור First root strongs: 6696
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6677. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

neck

Usage: 1) neck, back of neck 1a) neck, back of neck (of man) 1b) neck (of animals) Aramaic equivalent: tsav.var (צַוַּאר "neck" H6676)

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How Strong's H6677 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsavva'r, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

neck Genesis 27:16 30× necks Joshua 10:24

How Strong's H6677 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 39 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6677 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6677 in the Old Testament

39 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 27:16 KJV

And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:

Genesis 27:40 KJV

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

Genesis 33:4 KJV

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

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6677.

Genesis 27:16 Old Testament, KJV
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
Genesis 27:40 Old Testament, KJV
And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Genesis 33:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Genesis 41:42 Old Testament, KJV
And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
Genesis 45:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Genesis 46:29 Old Testament, KJV
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Deuteronomy 28:48 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Joshua 10:24 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.
Judges 5:30 Old Testament, KJV
Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
Judges 8:21 Old Testament, KJV
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.
Judges 8:26 Old Testament, KJV
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.
Nehemiah 3:5 Old Testament, KJV
And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their LORD.
Job 15:26 Old Testament, KJV
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Job 39:19 Old Testament, KJV
Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Job 41:22 Old Testament, KJV
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
Psalms 75:5 Old Testament, KJV
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Song of Solomon 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
Song of Solomon 4:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
Song of Solomon 4:9 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
Song of Solomon 7:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Isaiah 8:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Isaiah 10:27 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Isaiah 30:28 Old Testament, KJV
And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
Isaiah 52:2 Old Testament, KJV
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 27:2 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
Jeremiah 27:8 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Jeremiah 27:11 Old Testament, KJV
But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
Jeremiah 27:12 Old Testament, KJV
I spake also 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 Old Testament, KJV
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Jeremiah 28:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
Jeremiah 28:12 Old Testament, KJV
Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah 28:14 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon 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 beasts of the field also.
Jeremiah 30:8 Old Testament, KJV
For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
Lamentations 1:14 Old Testament, KJV
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations 5:5 Old Testament, KJV
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Ezekiel 21:29 Old Testament, KJV
Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
Hosea 10:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
Micah 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
Habakkuk 3:13 Old Testament, KJV
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6677, grouped by book.

Genesis 6 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 4 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 9 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6677 FAQ

What does tsavvar (צַוָּאר) mean?

Tsavvar (Strong's H6677) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "neck". tsavva'r (tsav-vawr') (or tsavvar (Nehemiah 3) n-m. 1. the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound) [intensively from H6696 in the sense of binding]

How many times is tsavvar (צַוָּאר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's H6677 across 15 books.

Where can I study tsavvar (צַוָּאר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6677 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate tsavvar (צַוָּאר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as neck and necks. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.