COLLAR.See Ornaments, § 2.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Job_30:18; "my affliction (disease) bindeth me about as the collar of my (inner) coat"; just as in the preceding clause, "my (outer) garment is changed into affliction "; comprising Job's trials, both those from without and those from within.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Collar. For the proper sense of this term, as it occurs in Jdg_8:26, See Earrings.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
kol?ar, kol?ẽr:
(1) (נטיפה, neṭı̄phāh, plural נטיפות, neṭı̄phōth, literally, ?drops,? from נטף, nāṭaph, ?to drop?). Jdg_8:26 includes neṭı̄phōth among the spoils taken from the Midianites and Ishmaelites; the Revised Version (British and American) ?pendants,? the King James Version ?collars.? Ḳimḥi at the place suggests ?perfume-dropper.?
(2) (פה, 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.
(3) (צינוק, cı̄nōḳ, Jer_29:26, ?stocks?; the Revised Version (British and American) ?shackles,? which see; the Revised Version, margin ?collar?). An instrument of torture or punishment.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Collar
the rendering of one Gr. and two Heb. words in the Auth. Vers. 1. פֶּה (peh, Job_30:18; where, however, some merely read כְּמוֹ, as), properly signifies a mouth, in which sense it often occurs, and is hence applied to any aperture or orifice. SEE MOUTH.
It is frequently applied elsewhere (as in the passage cited) to the opening of a garment that closes around the. neck, such as the tunic (Exo_39:23, Psa_133:2). See EPHOD. 2. נְטַיפוֹת(netiphoth', drops, Jdg_8:26), collars, mentioned among the spoils of the Midianites, were a peculiar kind of pendant, or ear-drop, probably of pearls, and hence different from the ordinary ear-ring (q.v.). The same term occurs in the list of female attire in Isa_3:19, where it is translated chains (q.v.). 3. Ιμας (Sir_33:26), a thong, i.e. strap for harnessing a beast of burden to the yoke (q.v.).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.