נֶזֶםnezem

ring, always of gold when material mentioned

Pronunciation: neh'-zem · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5141

Meanings

Where it appears

Appears 17 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 24:22 Then at last, when the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring for her nose and two large gold bracelets for her wrists.
  • Genesis 24:30 He had seen the nose-ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man had said. So he rushed out to the spring, where the man was still standing beside his camels.
  • Genesis 24:47 “Then I asked, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘I am the daughter of Bethuel, and my grandparents are Nahor and Milcah.’ So I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her wrists.
  • Genesis 35:4 So they gave Jacob all their pagan idols and earrings, and he buried them under the great tree near Shechem.
  • Exodus 32:2 So Aaron said, “Take the gold rings from the ears of your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
  • Exodus 32:3 All the people took the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).