Nose Jewels
Nose-jewels
Only mentioned in Isa. 3:21, although refered to in Gen. 24:47, Prov. 11:22, Hos. 2:13. They were among the most valued of ancient female ornaments. They “were made of ivory or metal, and occasionally jewelled. They were more than an inch in diameter, and hung upon the mouth. Eliezer gave one to Rebekah which was of gold and weighed half a shekel…At the present day the women in the country and in the desert wear these ornaments in one of the sides of the nostrils, which droop like the ears in consequence.”
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Nose-Jewels
noz-juelz, -jooelz (, nezem (probably from , nazam, muzzle) a nose-ring, or nose-jewel, so rendered in Isa 3:21; jewel in a swine’s snout, Pro 11:22, the King James Version margin ring; jewel on thy forehead, Eze 16:12, ring upon thy nose): In Gen 24:22, the King James Version rendered incorrectly earring; compare Gen 24:47. Indeed, the word had also a more generic meaning of ring or jewelry, whether worn in the nose or not. See Gen 35:4; Exo 32:2, where the ornament was worn in the ear. There are several cases without specification, uniformly rendered, without good reason, however, earring in the King James Version (Exo 35:22; Jdg 8:24, Jdg 8:25; Job 42:11 (ring); Pro 25:12; Hos 2:13 (15)).
The nose-jewel was made of gold or of silver, usually, and worn by many women of the East. It was a ring of from an inch to about three inches (in extreme cases) in diameter, and was passed through the right nostril. Usually there were pendant from the metal ring jewels, beads or coral. Such ornaments are still worn in some parts of the East. See also AMULET; JEWEL.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Nose Jewels
These were rings, ornamented with jewels, and generally passed through the right side of the nostril, hanging down by the mouth. This mode of decoration is referred to in Pro 11:22: “As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.” In Isa 3:21 the nose jewels are mentioned among other adornments of women, which should be taken away in God’s judgements; and in Eze 16:12, among the ornaments spoken of symbolically with which God adorned Jerusalem, is ‘a jewel on thy forehead,’ which should however read ‘a ring upon thy nose.’