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Bible Encyclopedias
Nose-Ring
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or The Hebrew word 
(plural, 
) is used for both earrings and nose-rings, but where the latter is referred to the word 
is added (Isaiah 3:21); or it is indicated in another way that the ring is intended for the nose (as in Genesis 24:30,47, et al.). Nose-rings were worn only by women, and the first mention of them occurs in the narrative of Eliezer and Rebekah, where the former gave the latter a golden nose-ring of half a shekel's weight (Genesis 24:47, R. V.; comp. A. V.). That in certain instances golden nose-rings are specifically referred to suggests that nose-rings sometimes were made of baser metals. The nose-ring is mentioned in the proverb, "A fair woman without discretion is like a golden nose-ring in a swine's snout" (Proverbs 11:22, Hebr.). That nose-rings were still worn by Jewish women in the time of the Talmudists is evidenced by the regulation forbidding women to wear them on Sabbath in public (Shab. 6:1). Noserings are mentioned in the Mishnah (Kelim 11:8) as ornaments that are capable of becoming unclean.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Nose-Ring'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/n/nose-ring.html. 1901.
