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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5141

נֶזֶם

nezemneh'-zem

ring

17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5141is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 12
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5141

a nose-ring

The King James renders it: earring, jewel.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

nezem is rendered "ring". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 24:22And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
  • The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.

The first use

And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

Genesis 24:22נֶ֣זֶם

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in eight of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 31 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a ring of3
  • earrings of2
  • rings of2
  • the earring of2
  • the ring2
  • a ring1
  • an earring of1
  • and earring1
  • and rings of1
  • ring her1
  • the rings1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

נֶזֶרnezerconsecration: Nazirite vowUses25

The words it stands beside

All 17, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

12 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • נֶ֣זֶם4
  • נֶ֥זֶם2
  • נִזְמֵ֤י2
  • הַנֶּ֗זֶם1
  • הַנֶּ֙זֶם֙1
  • הַנְּזָמִ֖ים1
  • וָנֶ֜זֶם1
  • וְנִזְמֵ֥י1
  • נֶ֙זֶם֙1
  • נִזְמָהּ֙1
  • נִזְמֵ֣י1
  • נִזְמֵ֥י1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)6HNcmsc
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmpc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmpc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa

Genesis

four uses
  • And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

    Genesis 24:22

    • נֶ֣זֶםnezemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a ring of
  • As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.

    Genesis 24:30

    • הַנֶּ֗זֶםhanezemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the ring
  • Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

    Genesis 24:47

    • הַנֶּ֙זֶם֙hanezemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the ring
  • So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

    Genesis 35:4

    • הַנְּזָמִ֖יםhanezamimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the rings

Exodus

three uses
  • So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”

    Exodus 32:2

    • נִזְמֵ֣יnizmeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rings of
  • Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.

    Exodus 32:3

    • נִזְמֵ֥יnizmeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rings of
  • So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.

    Exodus 35:22

    • וָנֶ֜זֶםvanezemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and earring

Judges

four uses
  • Then he added, “Let me make a request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his plunder.” (For the enemies had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)

    Judges 8:24

    • נֶ֣זֶםnezemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the earring of
    • נִזְמֵ֤יnizmeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: earrings of
  • “We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

    Judges 8:25

    • נֶ֥זֶםnezemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the earring of
  • The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.

    Judges 8:26

    • נִזְמֵ֤יnizmeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: earrings of

Job

one use
  • All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

    Job 42:11

    • נֶ֥זֶםnezemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a ring of

Proverbs

two uses
  • Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

    Proverbs 11:22

    • נֶ֣זֶםnezemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a ring of
  • Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.

    Proverbs 25:12

    • נֶ֣זֶםnezemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: an earring of

Isaiah

one use
  • their signet rings and nose rings;

    Isaiah 3:21

    • וְנִזְמֵ֥יvenizmeiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and rings of

Ezekiel

one use
  • I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.

    Ezekiel 16:12

    • נֶ֙זֶם֙nezemnoun · masculine singulartagged: a ring

Hosea

one use
  • I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

    Hosea 2:13

    • נִזְמָהּ֙nizmahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: ring her

The letters

Gematria 97· 657 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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