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# נֶזֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5141

**ring** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5141/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶ֫זֶם: n.m. ring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5141/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 42:11 ring, always of gold when material mentioned;—נ׳ abs. Gn 24:30 +; cstr. v 22 +; sf. נִזְמָהּ Ho 2:15; pl. נְזָמִים Gn 35:4; cstr. נִזְמֵי Ex 32:2 +;— nose-ring (Syriac ܙܡܳܡܳܐ) woman’s ornament, נ׳ עַל־אַפָּהּ Gn 24:47 cf. v 22, 30 (J); נִזְמֵי הָאָף Is 3:21 (‖ טַבַּ֫עַת seal-ring); perhaps also Ho 2:15; Ez 16:12 fig. of י׳’s adoring Jerus. (‖ עֲגִילִים עַל־אָזְנַיִךְ); cf. נ׳ בְּאַף חֲזִיר Pr 11:22. earring, ornament of men and women, Gn 35:4, נ׳ אֲשֶׁר בְּאָזְנֵיהֶם so Ex 32:2, 3 (all E); cf. Pr 25:12 (in sim. of wise reprover), and perhaps Ex 35:22 (P; ‖ טַבַּ֫עַת); prob. also Ju 8:24(×2), 25, 26 (of men, cf. GFM), Jb 42:11.—Cf. further GeiJüd. Zeitschr. x (1872), 45 ff. RSSem i. 434, 2d ed. 453; also ref. sub נזר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a ring (4); the rings (3); (the) earring (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 3:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.21/#tree)

הַטַּבָּע֖וֹת וְנִזְמֵ֥י הָאָֽף׃

*Word for word:* the signet-rings and the.rings of the.nose

*JPS 1917:* the rings, and the nose-jewels;

[Proverbs 11:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.22/#tree)

נֶ֣זֶם זָ֭הָב בְּאַ֣ף חֲזִ֑יר אִשָּׁ֥ה יָ֝פָ֗ה וְסָ֣רַת טָֽעַם׃

*Word for word:* a.ring of.gold in.\[the\] nose of.a.pig a.woman beautiful and.\[who\] turns.aside of.discernment

*JPS 1917:* As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5141.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5141/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).