ἐνώτιον
earring
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐνώτιον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 16 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 24:22 ἐνώτιον And it came to pass when all the camels ceased drinking, that the man took golden ear-rings, each of a drachm weight, and he put two bracelets on her hands, their weight was ten pieces of gold.
- Genesis 24:30 ἐνώτιον And it came to pass when he saw the ear-rings and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heard the words of Rebecca his sister, saying, Thus the man spoke to me, that he went to the man, as he stood by the camels at the well.
- Genesis 24:47 ἐνώτιον And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter are you? tell me; and she said, I am daughter of Bathuel the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him; and I put on her the ear-rings, and the bracelets on her hands.
- Genesis 35:4 ἐνώτιον And they gave to Jacob the strange gods, which were in their hands, and the ear-rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the turpentine tree which is in Secima, and destroyed them to this day.
- Exodus 32:2 ἐνώτιον And Aaron says to them, Take off the golden ear-rings which are in the ears of your wives and daughters, and bring them to me.
- Exodus 32:3 ἐνώτιον And all the people took off the golden ear-rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
- Exodus 35:22 ἐνώτιον And the men, even every one to whom it seemed good in his heart, brought from the women, even brought seals and ear-rings, and finger-rings, and necklaces, and bracelets, every article of gold.
- Judges 8:24 ἐνώτιον And Gedeon said to them, I will make a request of you, and do you⌃ give me every man an earring out of his spoils: for they had golden earrings, for they were Ismaelites.
- Judges 8:24 ἐνώτιον And Gedeon said to them, I will make a request of you, and do you⌃ give me every man an earring out of his spoils: for they had golden earrings, for they were Ismaelites.
- Judges 8:25 ἐνώτιον And they said, We will certainly give them: and he opened his garment, and each man cast therein an earring of his spoils.
- Judges 8:26 ἐνώτιον And the weight of the golden earrings which he asked, was a thousand and seven hundred pieces of gold, besides the crescents, and the chains, and the garments, and the purple cloths that were on the kings of Madiam, and besides the chains that were on the necks of their camels.
- Proverbs 11:22 ἐνώτιον As an ornament in a swine's snout, so is beauty to an ill-minded woman.
- Proverbs 25:12 ἐνώτιον In an ear-ring of gold a precious sardius is also set; so is a wise word to an obedient ear.
- Isaiah 3:20 ἐνώτιον and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the wreathed work, and the finger-rings, and the ornaments for the right hand,
- Ezekiel 16:12 ἐνώτιον And I put a pendant on your nostril, and rings in your ears, and a crown of glory on your head.
- Hosea 2:15 ἐνώτιον And I will giver her possessions from thence, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.
About this word
About this word
ἐνώτιον (enṓtion), “earring,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 16 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →