nezem · ring, earring

What it means

nezem (נֶזֶם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ring, earring”.

Ring worn in the nose or the ear as an ornament.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A hoop of jewelry for the nose or ear.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• ring ×8
• earrings ×5
• earring ×2
• rings ×2

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×3
• Judges×4
• Job×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 24:22

  When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring of half a shekel in weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels of gold in weight,

• Genesis 24:30

  When he saw the ring and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “Thus the man spoke to me,” he went to the man; and look, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

• Genesis 24:47

  Then I asked her and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her hands.

• Genesis 35:4

  So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob buried them under the oak that was near Shechem.

• Exodus 32:2

  And Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold earrings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

• Exodus 32:3

  So all the people tore off the gold earrings that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

• Exodus 35:22

  And they came, the men with the women, all who were generous of heart; they brought brooches and earrings and rings and necklaces, all kinds of articles of gold; and every man who waved a wave offering of gold to YHWH.

• Judges 8:24

  Gideon said to them, “Let me ask of you a request: give me each man an earring from his spoil.” For they had earrings of gold, because they were Ishmaelites.

• Judges 8:25

  They said, “We will certainly give them.” They spread out the cloak, and each man threw there an earring from his spoil.

• Judges 8:26

  The weight of the earrings of gold that he requested was a thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents, the pendants, and the garments of purple that were on the kings of Midian, and besides the necklaces that were on the necks of their camels.

• Job 42:11

  Then there came to him all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that YHWH had brought upon him; and they gave him each one a qesita and each one a ring of gold.

• Proverbs 11:22

  A ring of gold in the snout of a pig, so is a beautiful woman who turns away from judgment.

• Proverbs 25:12

  A ring of gold and an ornament of fine gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

• Isaiah 3:21

  the rings and the nose rings;

• Ezekiel 16:12

  And I put a ring in your nose and earrings in your ears and a crown of beauty on your head.

• Hosea 2:13

  And I will call her to account for the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense to them, and adorned herself with her ring and her jewelry, and went after her lovers, and me she forgot, declares YHWH.

And 1 more times.