# עֹרֶף (oref)

Israeli respelling: o-ref. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6203. 32 Old Testament occurrences.

the nape or back of the neck (as declining); hence, the back generally (whether literal or figurative)

King James renderings: back ((stiff-) neck((-ed).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/oref-h6203

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 49:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/8) — Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down bef…
- [Exodus 23:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/27) — I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their back…
- [Exodus 32:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/32/9) — And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- [Exodus 33:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/33/3) — Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee…
- [Exodus 33:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/33/5) — For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a…
- [Exodus 34:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/9) — And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and par…
- [Leviticus 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/8) — And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, bu…
- [Deuteronomy 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/6) — Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked…
- [Deuteronomy 9:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/13) — Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- [Deuteronomy 10:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/16) — Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
- [Deuteronomy 31:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/27) — For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and…
- [Joshua 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/8) — O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
- [Joshua 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/12) — Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accur…
- [2 Samuel 22:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/41) — Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
- [2 Kings 17:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/14) — Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their Go…
- [2 Chronicles 29:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/6) — For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away…
- [2 Chronicles 30:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/8) — Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified…
- [2 Chronicles 36:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/36/13) — And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from tur…
- [Nehemiah 9:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/16) — But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
- [Nehemiah 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/17) — And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appoi…
- [Nehemiah 9:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/29) — And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandm…
- [Job 16:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/12) — I was 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/40) — Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
- [Proverbs 29:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/1) — He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
- [Isaiah 48:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/4) — Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
- [Jeremiah 2:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/27) — Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their f…
- [Jeremiah 7:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/26) — Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
- [Jeremiah 17:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/23) — But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
- [Jeremiah 18:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/17) — I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
- [Jeremiah 19:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/19/15) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronou…
- [Jeremiah 32:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/33) — And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearken…
- [Jeremiah 48:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/39) — They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to al…