A ring or hook passed through the lobe of the ear. Earrings, so widely used by Eastern peoples, have no particular designation in Hebrew. The word
Earrings seem to have been regarded by Eastern nations as sacred thingsâsome scholars even suggest as amuletsâfor the sons of Jacob surrendered their earrings with the idols which Jacob afterward concealed under the oak-tree (Genesis 35:4). The Targum and the Samaritan version of the Pentateuch always translate
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