1) neck, back of the neck, back 1a) back of the neck 1a1) of fleeing foe 1a2) of apostasy (fig.) 1b) stiff of neck, obstinate (fig.)
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H6203 — עֹ֫רֶף
o.reph · neck · Hebrew/Aramaic
32 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 49:8 · בְּעֹ֣רֶףJudah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.Exodus 23:27 · עֹֽרֶף׃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.Exodus 32:9 · עֹ֖רֶףThe LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.Exodus 33:3 · עֹ֙רֶף֙Go 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.”Exodus 33:5 · עֹ֔רֶףFor 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.’”Exodus 34:9 · עֹ֙רֶף֙“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.”Leviticus 5:8 · עָרְפּ֖וֹHe 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;Deuteronomy 9:6 · עֹ֖רֶףUnderstand, 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.Deuteronomy 9:13 · עֹ֖רֶףThe LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.Deuteronomy 10:16 · וְעָ֨רְפְּכֶ֔םCircumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.Deuteronomy 31:27 · עָרְפְּךָ֖For 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!Joshua 7:8 · עֹ֖רֶףO Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?Joshua 7:12 · עֹ֗רֶףThis 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.2 Samuel 22:41 · עֹ֑רֶףYou have made my enemies retreat before me; I destroyed those who hated me.2 Kings 17:14 · עָרְפָּם֙ · כְּעֹ֣רֶףBut they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.2 Chronicles 29:6 · עֹֽרֶף׃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.2 Chronicles 30:8 · עָרְפְּכֶ֖םNow 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.2 Chronicles 36:13 · עָרְפּוֹ֙He 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.Nehemiah 9:16 · עָרְפָּ֔םBut they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.Nehemiah 9:17 · עָרְפָּ֔םThey 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.Nehemiah 9:29 · וְעָרְפָּ֥םYou 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 turned a stubborn shoulder; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.Job 16:12 · בְּ֭עָרְפִּיI was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;Psalm 18:40 · עֹ֑רֶףYou have made my enemies retreat before me; I destroyed those who hated me.Proverbs 29:1 · עֹ֑רֶףA man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.Isaiah 48:4 · עָרְפֶּ֔ךָFor I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.Jeremiah 2:27 · עֹ֖רֶףsay to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’Jeremiah 7:26 · עָרְפָּ֔םYet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.Jeremiah 17:23 · עָרְפָּ֔םYet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.Jeremiah 18:17 · עֹ֧רֶףI 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.”Jeremiah 19:15 · עָרְפָּ֔ם“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.’”Jeremiah 32:33 · עֹ֖רֶףThey 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.Jeremiah 48:39 · עֹ֥רֶף“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.”