עֹרֶף
ʻôreph · o-ref'
the nape or back of the neck (as declining); hence, the back generally (whether literal or figurative)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6202 (עָרַף);
the nape or back of the neck (as declining); hence, the back generally (whether literal or figurative)
- the nape or back of the neck (as declining)
- hence, the back generally (whether literal or figurative)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: back ((stiff-) neck((-ed).
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the head, the highest › to speak, the word
To see and know of the head, the highest that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֹרֶף above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
33 occurrences · 33 OT · 0 NT · 20 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- their necks4 · 12%
- his neck3 · 9%
- their backs3 · 9%
- and, behold, it is a stiffnecked2 · 6%
- me the necks2 · 6%
- their neck2 · 6%
- shall be in the neck1 · 3%
- turn their backs1 · 3%
- of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked1 · 3%
- ye are a stiffnecked1 · 3%
- us; for it is a stiffnecked1 · 3%
- for thou art a stiffnecked1 · 3%
- and be no more stiffnecked1 · 3%
- neck1 · 3%
- like to the neck1 · 3%
- now be ye not stiffnecked1 · 3%
- me by my neck1 · 3%
- and thy neck1 · 3%
- their back1 · 3%
- but made their neck1 · 3%
- them the back1 · 3%
- unto me the back1 · 3%
- the back1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.