Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6203
עֹרֶף
orepho-ref'
neck
33 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻôreph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6203is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 14 of 39Old Testament books
- 20spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6203
the nape or back of the neck (as declining); hence, the back generally (whether literal or figurative)
The King James renders it: back ((stiff-) neck((-ed).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
oreph is rendered "neck". It stands 33 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 49:8Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
- The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.
The first use
Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
Genesis 49:8בְּעֹ֣רֶף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in fourteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- neck8
- neck their6
- a neck5
- a back3
- neck your3
- and neck their1
- and neck your1
- back1
- like neck of1
- neck his1
- neck its1
- on neck my1
and 1 more, 33 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֹרֶם | orem | craftiness | Usesnot recorded |
The words it stands beside
All 33, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
20 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- עֹ֖רֶף6
- עָרְפָּ֔ם5
- עֹ֑רֶף3
- עֹ֙רֶף֙2
- עֹֽרֶף׃2
- בְּעֹ֣רֶף1
- בְּ֭עָרְפִּי1
- וְעָ֨רְפְּכֶ֔ם1
- וְעָרְפָּ֥ם1
- כְּעֹ֣רֶף1
- עֹ֔רֶף1
- עֹ֗רֶף1
and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular17HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural6HNcmsc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp2ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmsc/Sp2mp
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp2mp
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp1bs
Genesis
one use
Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
- בְּעֹ֣רֶףbeorefpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: on neck of
Exodus
five uses
I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.
- עֹֽרֶף׃ʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: neck
The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
- עֹ֖רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: neck
Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
- עֹ֙רֶף֙ʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: neck
For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’”
- עֹ֔רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: neck
“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
- עֹ֙רֶף֙ʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: neck
Leviticus
one use
He is to bring them to the priest, who shall first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the front of its neck without severing it;
- עָרְפּ֖וֹareponoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: neck its
Deuteronomy
four uses
Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
- עֹ֖רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: neck
The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
- עֹ֖רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: neck
Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
- וְעָ֨רְפְּכֶ֔םvearepekhemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and neck your
For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
- עָרְפְּךָ֖ʾarepekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: neck your
Joshua
two uses
O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
- עֹ֖רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: a neck
This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.
- עֹ֗רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: a neck
2 Samuel
one use
You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
- עֹ֑רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: a neck
2 Kings
two uses
But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
- עָרְפָּם֙ʾarepamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: neck their
- כְּעֹ֣רֶףkeorefpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like neck of
2 Chronicles
three uses
For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.
- עֹֽרֶף׃ʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: a back
Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
- עָרְפְּכֶ֖םʾarepekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: neck your
He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
- עָרְפּוֹ֙areponoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: neck his
Nehemiah
three uses
But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
- עָרְפָּ֔םʾarepamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: neck their
They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
- עָרְפָּ֔םʾarepamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: neck their
You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.
- וְעָרְפָּ֥םvearepamconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and neck their
Job
one use
I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
- בְּ֭עָרְפִּיbearepipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: on neck my
Psalms
one use
You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
- עֹ֑רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: neck
Proverbs
one use
A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
- עֹ֑רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: a neck
Isaiah
one use
For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
- עָרְפֶּ֔ךָʾarepekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: neck your
Jeremiah
seven uses
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
- עֹ֖רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: a back
Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
- עָרְפָּ֔םʾarepamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: neck their
Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.
- עָרְפָּ֔םʾarepamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: neck their
I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
- עֹ֧רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: back
“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
- עָרְפָּ֔םʾarepamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: neck their
They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
- עֹ֖רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: a back
“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
- עֹ֥רֶףʾorefnoun · masculine singulartagged: a neck
The letters
Gematria 350· 1,070 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
