noun · masculine
trachēlos
Strong’sG5137
the neck
stem trachēl-7 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
τράχηλος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for צַוַּאר, also forעֹרֶף, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5137 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtrakh'-ay-los
the throat (neck), i.e. (figuratively) life
Fromprobably from G5143 (through the idea of mobility);
King Jamesneck.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Doric dialect τράχᾱλος Refs 4th c.BC+: irregular plural τράχηλα Refs 3rd c.BC+:—neck, throat, Refs 5th c.BC+; distinguished from αὐχήν by Refs 5th c.BC+ being, accusative to Refs, the whole neck and throat, αὐχήν the back part of the neck in human beings, the upper part in animals; this difference is observed in Refs 2nd c.AD+; but αὐχήν in LXX+5th c.BC+, NT, and Papyrus τ. is more frequently than αὐχήν); τ. σώματος χωρὶς τεμών Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀποτεμεῖν, ἀποκόψαι, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἐς τ. πεσεῖν break one's neck, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ τ. ὠθεῖν τινα thrust head-foremost, NT+2nd c.AD+; ἐν βρόχῳ τὸν τ. ἔχων νομοθετεῖ with a halter round his neck, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἔδει σε ἐν τῷ σῷ τ. ἐμπαίζειν at the risk of your own neck, Refs 2nd c.BC+
2 neck of animals, of the horse, Refs 5th c.BC+; the neck as a joint of meat, Refs 1st c.AD+; of a fowl, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II of parts resembling the neck, e. g. upper part of the murex, Refs 4th c.BC+the narrow part of the abdomen, Refs 4th c.BC+; the neck of the grasshopper, Refs
II.2 neck of a vessel, Refs 2nd c.BC+; of a gourd, Refs 4th c.BC+; of parts of the body, τ. μήτρας Refs 5th c.BC+; κύστεως Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 middle part of a mast, Refs 2nd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | trachēlos | trachēlois |
| object accusative | trachēlon7×τράχηλον | trachēloin |
| direct address vocative | trachēlor | trachēloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | trachēlou | trachēloiu |
| to, for dative | trachēlo | trachēloi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
trachēlo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
trachēlon“neck”objectaccusative singular7×
Matthew 18:6… hina kremannuiteia mulos onikos eis ton trachēlon autou kai katapontiziteia en te pelage …… a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the …
Mark 9:42… ei perikeiotō mulos onikos peri ton trachēlon autou kai balotē eis tan thalassan.… a large millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the …
Luke 15:20“neck”… splanchnizita kai trecharantos epipiptata epi ton trachēlon autou kai katafilata auton.… got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
Luke 17:2… ei lithos mulikos perikeiotō peri ton trachēlon autou kai riptotē eis tan thalassan …… have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the …
Acts 15:10“neck”… ton theon, epitithara zugon epi ton trachēlon toiu mathētoiu hon oute tois patrois …… you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been …
Acts 20:37“neck”… geneta pantoiu, kai epipiptarantois epi ton trachēlon tou Paulou katafilale auton,They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.
Romans 16:4“necks”… huper tau psuchau mu ton heautoiu trachēlon hupotithala, hoi ouk mis monos eucharistamō …who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of …