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Job 41:14

“Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

צַוָּארtsavvâʼr · tsav-vawr'
H6677 · Hebrew
Definition
the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound)
Derivation
or צַוָּר; (Nehemiah 3:5), or צַוָּרֹןlemma צַוָּרן missing vowel, corrected to צַוָּרֹן; (Song of Solomon 4:9), or (feminine) צַוָּארָה; (Micah 2:3), intensively from H6696 (צוּר) in the sense of binding;
KJV renderings
neck.
Grammar
  • בְּֽ֭ — preposition
  • צַוָּאר — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
  • וֹ — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
Usage
Occurs 41 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 27:16Genesis 27:40Genesis 33:4Genesis 41:42Genesis 45:14

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read צַוָּאר here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.