Neck names the bodily place involved in an embrace, ornament or imposed yoke, with the action supplied by the account. Joseph embraces Benjamin and weeps, while another scene places a gold chain around Joseph's neck during Pharaoh's appointment.
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Neck names the bodily place involved in an embrace, ornament or imposed yoke, with the action supplied by the account. Joseph embraces Benjamin and weeps, while another scene places a gold chain around Joseph's neck during Pharaoh's appointment.
The BSB source-word alignment has 42 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include your neck (7), the neck (5), . . . (3), his neck (3), from the necks (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 27:16. Its strongest book concentrations include Jeremiah (9), Genesis (8), Isaiah (4), Song Of Solomon (4).
Neck names the bodily place involved in an embrace, ornament or imposed yoke, with the action supplied by the account. Joseph embraces Benjamin and weeps, while another scene places a gold chain around Joseph's neck during Pharaoh's appointment. Jeremiah wears a yoke as part of an expressly attributed prophetic message, and Hananiah breaks it while making a promise the subsequent account rejects.
Isaiah calls captive Zion to remove chains from her neck. These passages do not make every neck a symbol of bondage or every removed burden a guaranteed immediate deliverance. Name what is placed there, who acts and what the passage says the action signifies. An embrace, public ornament and imposed yoke are different relationships. Ancient judgments and prophetic signs must not become permission for a present-day leader to impose coercive submission, demand bodily contact or promise relief on a schedule the text does not supply.
Joseph's embrace and chain, Jeremiah's prophetic yoke and rejected counter-promise, and Zion's released chains identify different neck settings. Concrete action and explicitly supplied meaning guide interpretation.
Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.
Joseph and Benjamin embrace and weep within their reunion, with the named brothers and following kisses and conversation supplying the relationship.
Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Joseph’s finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.
Pharaoh places a gold chain around Joseph's neck alongside a ring and linen garments during appointment, describing a particular public honoring action.
This is what the Lord said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.
The Lord's word instructs Jeremiah to put a yoke on his neck and send a named message, requiring the prophet's expressly attributed instruction rather than unrestricted symbolism.
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Hebrew word. The neck metaphorically bears burdens and yokes; signifies subjugation or servitude when bound
The neck metaphorically bears burdens and yokes; signifies subjugation or servitude when bound
the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound) BDB: neck Usage: neck.
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The neck can be part of a reunion, a public appointment or an imposed burden, and the object and action make the difference. Joseph's embrace of Benjamin belongs to tears and renewed conversation. Pharaoh's chain belongs to a specific appointment with other visible marks of office. Jeremiah's yoke belongs to a named prophetic message, while the subsequent wooden-yoke breaking is not endorsed simply because it looks like liberation: the Lord's following word names an iron yoke and Jeremiah says Hananiah has taught a lie.
Isaiah's call to captive Zion gives another explicit setting for removing chains. Teach these actual accounts rather than one universal symbol. Keep affection voluntary in application, distinguish public honor from moral superiority, and refuse to borrow an ancient imposed yoke as permission for a current leader's coercion or a timetable for relief from every hardship.
Jer.27.2
The licensed Hebrew noun names the neck, including settings where burdens are bound there. Direct witnesses also show embraces and ornament, so a burden-related source description does not make every occurrence an imposed yoke or establish a moral diagnosis from anatomy.
Luke 15:20 describes the returning son's father embracing and kissing him in a compassionately named welcome. Matthew 11:28-30 separately contains Jesus' invitation to the weary and His description of His yoke. Neither Greek passage is this Hebrew noun. Read each named relationship and invitation in its own account without merging all neck actions or licensing a leader to demand harmful control under yoke language.