ne.zem denotes an ornamental, often gold ring worn on the nose or ears and exchanged or collected as a valued item.

The term denotes an ornamental ring, especially a gold item worn on the nose or ears; the same kind of object also appears among gifts, offerings, and spoil. The supplied verses show singular and plural forms without establishing separate lexical meanings.

1. Ornamental ring worn or treated as a valuable · dominant

   In Genesis 24:47, the singular form occurs where the APB renders that a ring was placed on Rebekah's nose, alongside bracelets on her hands. In Exodus 32:2 and Exodus 32:3, plural construct forms occur in the request for gold rings in the people's ears; Judges 8:25 places a ring from each man's spoil on a mantle, while Proverbs 11:22 uses a gold ring in a pig's snout as the comparison.

   Genesis 24:47Exodus 32:2Exodus 32:3Judges 8:25Proverbs 11:22Ezekiel 16:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the item as “ring” or “gold ring,” and it explicitly locates such an item on the nose in Genesis 24:47 and Ezekiel 16:12 and in the ears in Exodus 32:2. Its wording does not isolate the term in every occurrence; Hosea 2:15, for example, does not visibly render it.