Lexicon :: Strong's H6677 - ṣaûā'r

She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.

You will live by your sword,

and you will serve your brother.

But when you rebel,[fn]

you will break his yoke from your neck.

But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.

Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, clothed him with fine linen garments, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.

Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time.

“you will serve your enemies that the LORD will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

When they had brought the kings to him, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the military commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.

“Are they not finding and dividing the spoil —

a girl or two[fn] for each warrior,

the spoil of colored garments for Sisera,

the spoil of an embroidered garment or two for my neck? ”[fn]

Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up and strike us down yourself, for a man is judged by his strength.” So Gideon got up, killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.

The weight of the gold earrings he requested was forty-three pounds[fn] of gold, in addition to the crescent ornaments and ear pendants, the purple garments on the kings of Midian, and the chains on the necks of their camels.

Beside them the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not lift a finger to help[fn] their supervisors.

He rushes headlong at him

with his thick, studded shields.

Do you give strength to the horse?

Do you adorn his neck with a mane?[fn]

Strength resides in his neck,

and dismay dances before him.

“Do not lift up your horn against heaven[fn]

or speak arrogantly.’ ”

Your cheeks are beautiful with jewelry,

your neck with its necklace.

Your neck is like the tower of David,

constructed in layers.

A thousand shields are hung on it —

all of them shields of warriors.

You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride.

You have captured my heart with one glance of your eyes,

with one jewel of your necklace.

Your neck is like a tower of ivory,

your eyes like pools in Heshbon

by Bath-rabbim’s gate.

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon

looking toward Damascus.

It will pour into Judah,

flood over it, and sweep through,

reaching up to the neck;

and its flooded banks[fn]

will fill your entire land, Immanuel!

On that day

his burden will fall from your shoulders,

and his yoke from your neck.

The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.[fn]

His breath is like an overflowing torrent

that rises to the neck.

He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction

and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples

to lead them astray.

“Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!

Take your seat, Jerusalem.

Remove the bonds[fn] from your neck,

captive Daughter Zion.”

This is what the LORD said to me: “Make chains and yoke bars for yourself and put them on your neck.

“ ‘ “As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and does not place its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish by sword, famine, and plague ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​until through him I have destroyed it.

“But as for the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it in its own land, and that nation will cultivate[fn] it and reside in it. This is the LORD’s declaration.” ’ ”

The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke bar from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it.

“For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I have put an iron yoke on the neck of all these nations that they might serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even put the wild animals under him.’ ”

On that day —

this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies —

I will break his yoke from your neck

and tear off your chains,

and strangers will never again enslave him.

My transgressions have been formed into a yoke,[fn][fn]

fastened together by his hand;

they have been placed on my neck,

and the Lord has broken my strength.

He has handed me over

to those I cannot withstand.

We are closely pursued;

we are tired, and no one offers us rest.

“While they offer false visions

and lying divinations about you,

the time has come to put you

to the necks of the profane wicked ones;

the day has come

for final punishment.

Therefore, the LORD says:

I am now planning a disaster

against this nation;

you cannot free your necks from it.

Then you will not walk so proudly

because it will be an evil time.

You come out to save your people,

to save your anointed.[fn]

You crush the leader of the house of the wicked

and strip him from foot[fn] to neck.Selah