עֹ֫רֶף
o.reph (H6203)
neck
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word "o.reph" (H6203) is defined as "neck." It appears 33 times in the Bible, indicating its importance in various contexts. The word "o.reph" is a physical reference, describing a specific part of the human body. In its occurrences, "o.reph" is used to describe the neck in a literal sense, such as in poetic descriptions of the human form (e.g., Psalm 17:8). It is also used metaphorically to describe the connection between the head and the body, as in the phrase "to stretch out the neck" (e.g., Isaiah 51:6), which implies a sense of extension or reaching out. The significance of "o.reph" lies in its representation of the connection between the physical and spiritual aspects of human existence. The neck, as a vulnerable and exposed part of the body, is often associated with the soul or the inner self. In this sense, "o.reph" serves as a symbol of the human condition, highlighting the interplay between the physical and spiritual realms.
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“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.
I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”
Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”
He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering. He shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.
Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?
Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?
Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.
For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in Yahweh our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.
Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’
Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.
But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’ ”
They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
“How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So will Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.”