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title: נֶזֶם — ring · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נֶזֶם (5141), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 17 times: ring. BDB 1906: n.m. ring. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נֶזֶם

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«נֶזֶם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ring** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 17 times · **Key:** 5141 · **BDB:** נֶ֫זֶם

### Glosses

a.ring (4); the.rings (3); (the).earring (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נֶזֶם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5141/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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הַטַּבָּע֖וֹת וְנִזְמֵ֥י הָאָֽף׃

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

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

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

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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.

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