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מַפְרֶקֶת

miph.re.qet

neck

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Strong’s H4665Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

neck1

In the text

1 Samuel 4:18מַפְרַקְתּוֹ
As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מַפְרֶקֶת] n.f. neck (dividing head from body);—sf. 1 S 4:18.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.