אֹ֫זֶן
ear
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H241 appears in the Book of Jeremiah — 24 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 2:2 בְ/אָזְנֵ֨י prep + n c fd cs Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
- Jeremiah 5:21 אָזְנַ֥יִם n c fd Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
- Jeremiah 6:10 אָזְנָ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
- Jeremiah 7:24 אָזְנָ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
- Jeremiah 7:26 אָזְנָ֑/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
- Jeremiah 9:20 אָזְנְ/כֶ֖ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
- Jeremiah 11:8 אָזְנָ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them.
- Jeremiah 17:23 אָזְנָ֑/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
- Jeremiah 19:3 אָזְנָֽי/ו n c fd cs + sfx pers 3ms and say, Hear you the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.
- Jeremiah 25:4 אָזְנְ/כֶ֖ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear),
- Jeremiah 26:11 בְּ/אָזְנֵי/כֶֽם prep + n c fd cs + sfx pers 2mp Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.
- Jeremiah 26:15 בְּ/אָזְנֵי/כֶ֔ם prep + n c fd cs + sfx pers 2mp Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on the inhabitants of it; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.
- Jeremiah 28:7 בְּ/אָזְנֶ֑י/ךָ וּ/בְ/אָזְנֵ֖י prep + n c fd cs + sfx pers 2ms conj + prep + n c fd cs Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:
- Jeremiah 29:29 בְּ/אָזְנֵ֖י prep + n c fd cs Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
- Jeremiah 34:14 אָזְנָֽ/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.
- Jeremiah 35:15 אָזְנְ/כֶ֔ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return you now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
- Jeremiah 36:6 בְּ/אָזְנֵ֥י בְּ/אָזְנֵ֧י prep + n c fd cs prep + n c fd cs therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh's house on the fast-day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.
- Jeremiah 36:10 בְּ/אָזְנֵ֖י prep + n c fd cs Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's house, in the ears of all the people.
- Jeremiah 36:13 בְּ/אָזְנֵ֥י prep + n c fd cs Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
- Jeremiah 36:14 בְּ/אָזְנֵ֣י prep + n c fd cs Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.
- Jeremiah 36:15 בְּ/אָזְנֵ֑י/נוּ בְּ/אָזְנֵי/הֶֽם prep + n c fd cs + sfx pers 1cp prep + n c fd cs + sfx pers 3mp They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
- Jeremiah 36:20 בְּ/אָזְנֵ֣י prep + n c fd cs They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.
- Jeremiah 36:21 בְּ/אָזְנֵ֣י וּ/בְ/אָזְנֵי֙ prep + n c fd cs conj + prep + n c fd cs So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the king.
- Jeremiah 44:5 אָזְנָ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, אזן (ʼôzen) means “ear.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 20:8. It appears 179 verses across 26 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. It clusters with אזן, אזן and אזן under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H241 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 179
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 179 distinct verses.
- 26 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 26 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #249
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 249 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 179 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 179 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 85 verses · 47%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 63 verses · 35%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 31 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ears 82×, Ear 53×, Audience 7×
- American Standard Version: Ears 69×, Ear 45×, Audience 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ears 45×, Ear 35×, Hearing 31×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ear 61×, Ears 58×, Ears of 29×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H241 across 175 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 12 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H241 across 176 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 29 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H241 across 151 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 18 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 35 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H241 across 186 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 5 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. ear, as part of body; of human being, as bearing earring Gn 35:4 Ex 32:2, 3 (all JE) Ez 16:12; pierced by a master Ex 21:6 (E) Dt 15:17; touched with blood in consecration (תְּנוּךְ א׳ tip of ear) Lv 8:23, 24; 14:14, 17, 25, 28; cut off by enemy Ez 23:25 (of אָהֳלִיבָה q.v.); ear of dog Pr 26:17 מַחֲזִיק בְּאָזְנֵי־כָ֑לֶב; of sheep Am 3:12 (fragment rescued from lion). e.g. Genesis 35:4
- 2. especially as organ of hearing,
- a. of man Dt 29:3 2 S 22:45 = ψ 18:45, Jb 42:5 Is 30:21; implanted (נטע) by י׳ ψ 94:9; of idols (do not hear) ψ 115:6; 135:17; שָׁמַע בא׳ 2 S 7:22 + 8 times; especially בְּא׳ after vb. of saying = in the ears, in the hearing of Gn 20:8 (E) 23:10, 13, 16 (P) 44:18; 50:4 (J) Dt 5:1; 31:11, 28, 30 + 44 times; cf. Is 5:9 (vb. om.); after noun of utterance, sound 1 S 15:14 Jb 13:17; 15:21; cf. א׳ after verbal noun Ez 24:26 (לְהַשְׁמָעוּת א׳) cf. Is 11:3; הִטָה א׳ incline the ear = give attention ψ 45:11 Pr 22:17 + 9 times; sq. ל ψ 49:5 + 4 times; so הִקְשִׁיב א׳ Is 32:3; Pr 2:2 (sq. ל); הֵבִיא א׳ ל׳ Pr 23:2; as receiving words א׳ תִּקַּח Jb 4:12 cf. Je 9:19; as tingling (צלל) at dreadful news 1 S 3:11 2 K 21:12 Je 19:3; as hearing with satisfaction, triumph ψ 92:12 תִּשְׁמַעְנָה אָזְנָ֑י (‖ וַתַּבֵּט עֵינִי בְּ׳) but Che del.; as intelligent (involving mental process) שָֽׁמְעָה א׳ וַתָּבֶן לָהּ Jb 13:1; א׳ מִלִּין תִּבְחָ֑ן Jb 12:11 cf. 34:3; as unsatisfied Ec 1:8 לֹא תִמָּלֵא א׳ מִשְּׁמֹעַ; as seeking (בקשׁ) knowledge Pr 18:15; as hearing & blessing Jb 29:11; cf. א׳ שֹׁמַעַת Pr 20:12; 25:12 a hearing (responsive, obedient) ear; cf. Pr 15:31 Is 43:8; opp. stopping the ears (wilful ignorance) אֹטֵם א׳ מִן־ Pr 21:13 cf. Is 33:15; also of adder in simile of wicked ψ 58:5 כְּמוֹ פֶתֶן חֵדֵשׁ יַאְטֵם אָוְנוֹ; מֵסִיר א׳ מִן־ Pr 28:9 so עֲרֵלָה א׳ their ear is uncircumcised Je 6:10; הִכְבִּיד א׳ Zc 7:11 cf. Is 48:8 Je 5:21 Ez 12:2; cf. also Is 42:20. e.g. Deuteronomy 29:3
- b. of Yahweh, בְּא׳ י׳ after vb. of utterance Nu 11:18 (J) 14:28 (P) 1 S 8:21 Ez 8:18; after עָלָה 2 K 19:28 = Is 37:29; after בּוֹא ψ 18:7 cf. 2 S 22:7 where vb. om.; so also (after noun without vb.) Nu 11:1 (J) בְּא׳ י׳ 1 Ch 28:8 nearly = in presence of; incline the ear הִטָּה א׳ 2 K 19:16 = Is 37:17 Dn 9:18 ψ 86:1; sq. לְ ψ 17:6; 88:3; 116:2; sq. אֶל־ ψ 31:3; 71:2; 102:3; הִקְשִׁיב א׳ ψ 10:17; א׳ קַשֻּׁבוֹת לְ 2 Ch 6:40; 7:15 ψ 80:2 cf. 130:2; id. sq. אֶל־ Ne 1:6, 11; vb. om. א׳ אֶל־ ψ 34:16; cf. Is 59:1 לֹא כָֽבְדָה א׳; La 3:56 אַל־תַּעְלֵם א׳ ל׳. e.g. Numbers 11:18
- 3. †גָּלָה א׳ open ears of, reveal to, subj. man 1 S 20:2, 12, 13; 22:8(×2), 17 Ru 4:4; subj. י׳ 1 S 9:15 2 S 7:27 1 Ch 17:25; גּ׳ א׳ לַמּוּסָד Jb 36:10, cf. v 15; כָּרָה א׳ ψ 40:7; יָעִירלִי א׳לִשְׁמֹעַ Is 50:4; פָּתַח־לִי א׳ Is 50:5; cf. וְא׳ חֵרְשִׁים תִּפָּתַחְנָה Is 35:5; opp. judicial deafness Mi 7:16 Is 6:10. e.g. 1 Samuel 20:2
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. Ex 29:20 ear (Arabic أُذْن, Aramaic ܐܶܕܢܳܐ, אוּדְנָא, Assyrian uznu, Ethiopic እዝን )—abs. 2 S 22:45 +; cstr. Ex 29:20 +; sf. אָזְנִי 1 S 20:2 +, etc.; du. אָזְנַיִם (נָ֑יִם) Dt 29:3 +; cstr. אָזְנֵי Gn 23:10 +; sf. אָזְנַי (־נָ֑י) Nu 14:28 +; (never with article).—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אזן (ʼâzan) (H238) — to hear.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֲזַן
- Targ. Is. XXXIII, 4, third pers. pl. of אֲזָא, v. אֲזִי
אֹזֶן
- to be pointed, cut, cmp. חז, גז. v. אוּדְנָא)
- 1. ear. B. Kam. 79ᵇ א׳ של מַטָּה human ear, opp. Divine perception. Y. Sabb. I, 3ᵇ top; a. fr.
- 2. handle. Cant. R. beg. ולא הי׳ לה א׳ וכ׳ but had no handle and could not be carried; a. fr.—Du. אָזְנַיִם 1) ears. Lev. R. s. 32, beg. א׳ לדרך the road has ears (be on your guard in speaking); a. fr.—2) handles. Kel. IV, 3, v. גיסטרא; a. fr.
- 3. אָזְנַיִם or בנות א׳ swollen glands of the throat (Rashi). Ab. Zar. 28ᵇ א׳; Y. ib. II, 40ᵈ top; Y. Sabb. XIV, 14ᵈ top בנות א׳.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 108 distinct written forms H241 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 48 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H241, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- אזן שארה ʼUzzên Sheʼĕrâh H242 Uzzen Sherah
- אזנות תבור ʼAznôwth Tâbôwr H243 Aznoth Tabor
- אזניה ʼĂzanyâh H245 Azaniah
- יאזניה Yaʼăzanyâh H2970 Jaazaniah
- אזני ʼOznîy H244 Ozni
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 169 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 179 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 20:8
- Exodus 10:2
- Leviticus 8:23
- Numbers 11:1
- Deuteronomy 5:1
- Joshua 20:4
- Judges 7:3
- Ruth 4:4
- 1 Samuel 3:11
- 2 Samuel 3:19
- 2 Kings 18:26
- 1 Chronicles 17:20
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.