5 occurrences in 5 dictionaries

Reference: Awl

Easton

an instrument only referred to in connection with the custom of boring the ear of a slave (Ex 21:6; De 15:17), in token of his volunteering perpetual service when he might be free. (Comp. Ps 40:6; Isa 50:5).

Fausets

The boring of a slave's ear with it was the token of his volunteering perpetual service, when he might be free at the year of release (Ex 21:6; De 15:17). So Messiah, volunteering to become God's servant by taking man's nature; "Mine ears hast Thou opened" (Ps 40:6); Isa 1:5, "the Lord God hath opened Mine ear," i.e., hath made Me obediently attentive as a servant to his master. Heb 10:5-10 quotes it as Septuagint renders it: "a body hast Thou prepared Me," the strongest proof of willing obedience. The ear symbolizes obedience.

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Hastings

A boring instrument, named only in connexion with the ceremony whereby a slave was bound to perpetual servitude (Ex 21:6; De 15:17).

Morish

A piercing instrument, only spoken of as being thrust through the ear: its form is not known. Ex 21:6; De 15:17.

Smith

Awl,

a tool of which we do not know the ancient form. The only notice of it is in connection with the custom of boring the ear of the slave.

Ex 21:6; De 15:17