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Song of Solomon 7:5
“Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
צַוָּארtsavvâʼr · tsav-vawr'
H6677 · Hebrew
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
- צַוָּארֵ֖ — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- ךְ — suffix (pronominal), 2nd person, feminine, singular
- 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.
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.