Earrings

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Earrings
     rings properly for the ear (Gen. 35:4; Num. 31:50; Ezek. 16:12).
     In Gen. 24:47 the word means a nose-jewel, and is so rendered in
     the Revised Version. In Isa. 3:20 the Authorized Version has
     "ear-rings," and the Revised Version "amulets," which more
     correctly represents the original word (lehashim), which means


     incantations; charms, thus remedies against enchantment, worn
     either suspended from the neck or in the ears of females.
     Ear-rings were ornaments used by both sexes (Ex. 32:2).