21 Bible Verses about Ears
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A sacrifice and offering you do not desire. {My ears you have opened}. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded.
and he slaughtered [it]. Then Moses took {some of} its blood and put [it] on Aaron's right ear lobe and on his right hand's thumb and on his right foot's big toe.
To you, O Yahweh, I call. O my rock, do not be deaf to me. Or else, if you are silent to me, then I will become like those descending to [the] pit.
Extend your ear, and come to me! Listen so that your soul may live, and I will {make} an everlasting covenant with you, the enduring proofs of {the mercies shown to} David.
An intelligent {mind} will acquire knowledge, and the ear of the wise will seek knowledge.
But Yahweh has not given to you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear, [even] {to this day}.
For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."
Their venom [is] like snake venom; [They are] like a deaf viper that closes its ear so that it does not hear [the] voice of charmers [or the] skilled caster of spells.
But I only commanded them this word, {saying}, 'Obey my voice, and I will be to you God, and you will be to me people, and you must walk in all of the way that I command you, so that it goes well with you.'
"[You] stiff-necked [people] and uncircumcised in hearts and in [your] ears! You constantly resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers [did], [so] also [do] you!
For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but in accordance with their own desires, they will accumulate for themselves teachers, {because they have an insatiable curiosity},
And since ancient [times] they have not heard, have not listened, no eye has seen a God except you; he {acts} for the one who waits for him.
But your eyes [are] blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear. For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous [people] longed to see what you see, and did not see [it], and to hear what you hear, and did not hear [it]!
And his ears were opened and {his difficulty in speaking was removed} and he began to speak normally.
that he was caught up to paradise and heard words not to be spoken, which [it is] not permitted for a person to speak.
But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him."
his master will present him to God and bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve him forever.
And you will slaughter the ram and take [some] of its blood and put [it] on Aaron's [right] earlobe and on the right earlobe of his sons and on the thumb of their right hand and on {the big toe} of their right foot, and you will sprinkle the blood at the base of the altar all around.
The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"
From Thematic Bible
ears » Christ opens
Then [the] eyes of [the] blind shall be opened, and [the] ears of [the] deaf shall be opened.
Bring out [the] people blind yet with eyes, and deaf, though they have ears.
"You [are] my witnesses," {declares} Yahweh, "and my servant whom I have chosen so that you may know and believe {in} me and understand that I [am] he. No god was formed before {me}, and none shall be after me.
ears » Should » Hear and obey reproof
A ring of gold and an ornament of fine gold [is] a rebuke of the wise to the ear of a listener.
The ear of him who listens [to] admonitions of life, in the midst of the wise it will lodge.
ears » Of servants who refused to leave their masters, bored to the door
his master will present him to God and bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve him forever.
then you shall take an awl, and you shall thrust [it] through his earlobe and into the door, and he shall be to you {a slave forever}; and you shall also do likewise for your slave woman.
ears » Of the wicked » Not inclined to hear God
And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, {I have sent them over and over again}, {saying}, 'Turn back please each one from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and you must not go after other gods to serve them, {so that you may live} on the land that I gave to you and to your ancestors.' But you did not incline your ear and you did not listen to me.
Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in [their own] plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and {they became worse instead of better}.
ears » Blood put on the right ear of » Priests at consecration
And you will slaughter the ram and take [some] of its blood and put [it] on Aaron's [right] earlobe and on the right earlobe of his sons and on the thumb of their right hand and on {the big toe} of their right foot, and you will sprinkle the blood at the base of the altar all around.
and he slaughtered [it]. Then Moses took {some of} its blood and put [it] on Aaron's right ear lobe and on his right hand's thumb and on his right foot's big toe.
ears » That hears and receives the word of God, blessed
And he said, "If you carefully listen to the voice of Yahweh your God and you do [what is] right in his eyes and give heed to his commands and you keep all his rules, [then] I will not bring about on you any of the diseases that I brought about on Egypt, because I [am] Yahweh your healer.
ears » Of the wicked » Stopped against God's word
But they refused to listen, and turned a stubborn shoulder and {stopped their ears from listening}.
ears » God » Judicially closes
Make the heart of this people insensitive, and make its ears unresponsive, and shut its eyes so that it may not look with its eyes and listen with its ears and comprehend [with] its mind and turn back, and it may be healed [for] him."
For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."
ears » Often adorned with rings
{I will punish her} [for] the days of the Baals, to whom she burns incense, and she decked herself [with] her ornamental ring and jewelry, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me --a declaration of Yahweh.
ears » Of the wicked » Uncircumcised
"[You] stiff-necked [people] and uncircumcised in hearts and in [your] ears! You constantly resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers [did], [so] also [do] you!
To whom shall I speak and admonish, that they may hear? Look, their ears [are] {closed}, and they are not able to listen attentively. Look, the word of Yahweh is to them an object of scorn, they do not delight in it.
ears » God » Opens
So he opens their ear to the discipline, and he commands that they return from mischief.
ears » The organ of hearing
"When [the] ear heard and commended me, and [the] eye saw and testified in support of me
ears » Not satisfied with earthly things
All things toil continuously; no one can ever finish describing this. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, and the ear is never filled with hearing.
ears » Blood put on the right ear of » The healed leper in cleansing him
And the priest shall take {some of} the guilt offering's blood, and the priest shall put [it] on the right ear's lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand's thumb and on his right foot's big toe.
ears » Should » Seek knowledge
An intelligent {mind} will acquire knowledge, and the ear of the wise will seek knowledge.
ears » God » Made
ears » Not to be stopped at cry of the poor
He who closes his ear from the cry of the poor, he also will cry out and not be heard.
ears » Of the wicked » Turned away from God's law
He who turns his ear from listening to instruction, even his prayer [is] an abomination.
ears » Of the wicked » Itching
For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but in accordance with their own desires, they will accumulate for themselves teachers, {because they have an insatiable curiosity},
ears » Should » Receive the word of God
For hear, women, the word of Yahweh, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters a lamentation, and each woman her neighbor a lament.
ears » Should » Be bowed down to instructions
My child, be attentive to my wisdom, and to my understanding incline your ear;
ears » Should » Be inclined to wisdom
[in order] to incline your ear toward wisdom, [then] you shall apply your heart to understanding.
ears » Instruction received through
And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying, "this [is] the way; walk in it," when you go to your right and when you go to your left.
ears » Should » Be given to the law of God
Hear the word of Yahweh, rulers of Sodom! Listen [to] the teaching of our God, people of Gomorrah!
ears » God » Planted
Will [the] one who planted [the] ear not hear? Will [the] one who formed [the] eye not see?
ears » Capable of trying and distinguishing words
Hearing » ears
"Hear my words, you wise men, and listen to me, you who know, for [the] ear tests words, and [the] palate tastes {food}.