Strong's #6203: `oreph (pronounced o-ref')

from 6202; the nape or back of the neck (as declining); hence, the back generally (whether literal or figurative):-- back ((stiff-)neck((-ed).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ôreph

1) neck, back of the neck, back

1a) back of the neck

1a1) of fleeing foe

1a2) of apostasy (figuratively)

1b) stiff of neck, obstinate (figuratively)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H6202

Usage:

This word is used 35 times:

 

Genesis 49:8: "art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down"
Exodus 23:27: "all thine enemies turn their backs unto"
Exodus 32:9: "people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:"
Exodus 33:3: "in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume"
Exodus 33:5: "the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst"
Exodus 34:9: "among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity"
Leviticus 5:8: "his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:"
Deuteronomy 9:6: "it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people."
Deuteronomy 9:13: "people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:"
Deuteronomy 10:16: "of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked."
Deuteronomy 21:4: "eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there"
Deuteronomy 21:4: "and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:"
Deuteronomy 31:27: "thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with"
Joshua 7:8: "when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!"
Joshua 7:12: "before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were"
2 Samuel 22:41: "Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate"
2 Kings 17:14: "hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not"
2 Kings 17:14: "but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe"
2 Chronicles 29:6: "from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs."
2 Chronicles 30:8: "Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 36:13: "by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning"
Nehemiah 9:16: "dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,"
Nehemiah 9:17: "among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return"
Nehemiah 9:29: "in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear."
Job 16:12: "at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark."
Psalms 18:40: "Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate"
Proverbs 29:1: "He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."
Isaiah 48:4: "Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow"
Jeremiah 2:27: "hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time"
Jeremiah 7:26: "their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers."
Jeremiah 17:23: "their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor"
Jeremiah 18:17: "before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity."
Jeremiah 19:15: "it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words."
Jeremiah 32:33: "And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching"
Jeremiah 48:39: "how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision"