Bible Dictionary
Collar
Collar may refer to the neck opening or band of a garment. In other passages, the word refers to pendants or ornaments, and possibly to shackles.
Definition
Collar may mean the neck opening or collar band of a robe. In other passages the word refers to pendants or drops used as ornaments, and it may also refer to shackles or an instrument of punishment.
Biblical Usage
The collar band appears in the description of a garment. “Collars” among the Midianite spoils are rendered “pendants,” while another related word is associated with shackles.
Historical Background
The term translated “collar” has several underlying Hebrew words with different senses, including drop, mouth or opening, and stocks or shackles.
Scripture References
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(Heb. peh), means in Job 30:18 the mouth or opening of the garment that closes round the neck in the same way as a tunic (Ex. 39:23). The “collars” (Heb. netiphoth) among the spoils of the Midianites (Judg. 8:26; R.V., “pendants”) were ear-drops. The same Hebrew word is rendered “chains” in Isa. 3:19.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
For the proper sense of this term, as it occurs in (Judges 8:26) see Earrings.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>kol'-ar, kol'-er:</p><p>(1) (neTphah, plural neTphoth, literally, "drops," from naTaph, "to drop"). Jud 8:26 includes neTphoth among the spoils taken from the Midianites and Ishmaelites; the Revised Version (British and American) "pendants," the King James Version "collars." Qimchi at the place suggests "perfume-dropper."</p><p>(2) (peh, literally, "mouth"). In Job 30:18 the word is used to indicate the collar band, or hole of a robe, through which the head was inserted. Job, in describing his suffering and writhing, mentions the disfiguring of his garment, and suggests that the whole thing feels as narrow or close-fitting as the neckband, or perhaps that in his fever and pains he feels as if the neckband itself is choking him.</p><p>(3) (tsinoq, Jer 29:26, "stocks"; the Revised Version (British and American) "shackles," which see; the Revised Version, margin "collar"). An instrument of torture or punishment.</p><p>Nathan Isaacs</p>