Then he threw himself on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

Bind them ¹  on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.

“Do you give the horse its strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane? ¹ 

Strength lodges in its neck, and despair ¹  runs before it.

Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely ¹  with strings of jewels.

She put the skins of the young goats ¹  on his hands ²  and the smooth part of his neck.

The Lord told me, ¹  “Make a yoke ²  out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck.

The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck and broke it.

The shackles hurt his feet; ¹  his neck was placed in an iron collar, ² 

For they will be like ¹  an elegant ²  garland ³  on ⁴  your head, and like ⁵  pendants ⁶  around ⁷  your neck.

So ¹  they will give ²  life to you, ³  and grace to adorn ⁴  your neck. ⁵ 

I did this ¹  because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze. ² 

I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.

Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, ¹  he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.

I was in peace, and he has shattered me. ¹  He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. ²  He has made me his target;

Your neck is like the tower ¹  of David built with courses of stones; ²  one thousand shields are hung on it – all shields of valiant warriors. ³ 

and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse ¹  must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. ² 

Do not let truth and mercy ¹  leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. ² 

Shake off the dirt! ¹  Get up, captive ²  Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

Judah, ¹  your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.