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Strong's #5141 - נֶזֶם
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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- ring, nose ring, earring
- nose ring (woman´s ornament)
- earring (ornament of men or women)
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1 nose-ring (Syriac 
) woman's ornament, עַלאַֿמָּהּ׳נ Genesis 24:47 compare Genesis 24:22; Genesis 24:30 (J); נִזְמֵי הָאָף Isaiah 3:21 ("" טַבַּ֫עַת seal-ring); perhaps also Hosea 2:15; Ezekiel 16:12 figurative of ׳י s adorning Jerusalem ("" עֲגִילִים עַלאָֿזְנַיִךְ); compare בְּאַף חֲזִיר׳נ Proverbs 11:22.
2 earring ornament of men and women, Genesis 35:4, אֲשֶׁר בְּאָזְנֵיהֶם׳נ so Exodus 32:2,3(all E); compare Proverbs 25:12 (in simile of wise reprover), and perhaps Exodus 35:22 (P; "" טַבַּ֫עַת); probably also Judges 8:24 (twice in verse); Judges 8:25,26 (of men, compare GFM), Job 42:11. — compare further Gei Jüd. Zeltaschr. x (1872), 45 ff. RS Semitic i. 434,2 d ed. 453; also ref, below נור.
נֶזֶם with suff. נִזְמִי, pl. נְזָמִים, נִזְמֵי, m. a ring
(a) worn in the nose as an ornament (see Jerome on Ezekiel 19:12, and the remarks of travellers in Jahn, Archæol. 1, § 153; and A. Th. Hartmann, Hebräerin, ii. 166; iii. 205, seqq.), Genesis 24:47; Isaiah 3:21; Proverbs 11:22; Hosea 2:13.
(b) worn in the ears, an earring, Genesis 35:4. In other passages it is not defined of what kind it was, Judges 8:24, 25 Judges 8:25; Job 42:11; Proverbs 25:12.
