Ring
נֶ֫זֶםStrong’s H5141nezem (ne-zem)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nezem is the Hebrew word usually translated “ring of”, “ring” and “rings of”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;”
Meaning
- Ring, nose ring, earringnose ring (woman's ornament) · earring (ornament of men or women)
How it's translated
- a ring of 3
- the ring 2
- rings of 2
- earring of 2
- earrings of 2
- the rings 1
- and earring 1
- an earring of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
- Exodus 3
- Judges 3
- Proverbs 2
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 24:30And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
- Genesis 24:47And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
- Genesis 35:4And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
- Exodus 32:2And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
- Exodus 32:3And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
- Exodus 35:22And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
נֶ֫זֶם nezem · ring
1) ring, nose ring, earring 1a) nose ring (woman's ornament) 1b) earring (ornament of men or women)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RING, noun
- A circle, or a circular line, or any thing in the form of a circular line or hoop. Exodus 25:12
- A circular course.
All definitions and other forms of “ring”
RING, noun
[from the verb.]
- A sound; particularly, the sound of metals; as the ring of a bell.
- Any loud sound, or the sounds of numerous voices; or sound continued, repeated or reverberated; as the ring of acclamations.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
RING, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive rung.
RING, verb transitive
[from the noun.
- To encircle.
- To fit with rings, as the fingers, or as a swine's snout.
RING, verb intransitive
- To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
- To practice the art of making music with bells.
- To sound; to resound.
- To utter, as a bell; to sound.
- To tinkle; to have the sensation of sound continued.
- To be filled with report or talk.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.