אֹזֶן
ʼôzen · o'-zen
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H238 (אָזַן);
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [phrase] advertise, audience, [phrase] displease, ear, hearing, [phrase] show.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › to cut, to sustain › the seed, life continuing
Strength, the leader that works to cut, to sustain of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אֹזֶן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
187 occurrences · 187 OT · 0 NT · 107 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in the ears19 · 17%
- thine ear14 · 13%
- ear9 · 8%
- their ear6 · 5%
- in the audience5 · 5%
- in mine ears5 · 5%
- his ears4 · 4%
- in their ears4 · 4%
- mine ear4 · 4%
- their ears3 · 3%
- with our ears3 · 3%
- your ear3 · 3%
- and the ears3 · 3%
- and thine ears3 · 3%
- the ears3 · 3%
- with thine ears3 · 3%
- his ear3 · 3%
- with your ears2 · 2%
- and mine ears2 · 2%
- into mine ears2 · 2%
- them in the ears2 · 2%
- in your ears2 · 2%
- it in the ears2 · 2%
- i pray you, in the ears2 · 2%
- which were in their ears2 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.