Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
ring
Usage: 1) ring, nose ring, earring 1a) nose ring (woman's ornament) 1b) earring (ornament of men or women)
Nezem means “earring” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5141 — tremo (“be afraid”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5141 נֶזֶם (nexem) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. nexem (neh'-zem) n-m. 1. a nose-ring [from an unused root of uncertain meaning] It has 16 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include jewels, earring, and jewel. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
nexem (neh'-zem) n-m. 1. a nose-ring [from an unused root of uncertain meaning] KJV: earring, jewel.
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ring
Usage: 1) ring, nose ring, earring 1a) nose ring (woman's ornament) 1b) earring (ornament of men or women)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nexem, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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16 indexed usages in 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;
And 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.
And 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.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5141.
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;
And 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
And 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.
And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.
Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
The rings, and nose jewels,
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5141, grouped by book.
Nezem (Strong's H5141) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "earring". nexem (neh'-zem) n-m. 1. a nose-ring [from an unused root of uncertain meaning]
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's H5141 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5141 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as jewels, earring, and jewel. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.