'Ear' in the Bible

(Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.

And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.”

then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

You shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the lobes of his sons’ right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet, and sprinkle the rest of the blood around on the altar.

Moses slaughtered it and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

He also had Aaron’s sons come near; and Moses put some of the blood on the lobe of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot. Moses then sprinkled the rest of the blood around on the altar.

The priest shall then take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Of the remaining oil which is in his palm, the priest shall put some on the right ear lobe of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering;

Next he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

The priest shall then put some of the oil that is in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering.

Then he took up his discourse and said,“Arise, O Balak, and hear;Give ear to me, O son of Zippor!

Then you returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord did not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.

then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also you shall do likewise to your maidservant.

“Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak;And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

“Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers!I—to the Lord, I will sing,I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

let Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night, on behalf of the sons of Israel Your servants, confessing the sins of the sons of Israel which we have sinned against You; I and my father’s house have sinned.

O Lord, I beseech You, may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and the prayer of Your servants who delight to revere Your name, and make Your servant successful today and grant him compassion before this man.”Now I was the cupbearer to the king.

“However, You bore with them for many years,And admonished them by Your Spirit through Your prophets,Yet they would not give ear.Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

“Now a word was brought to me stealthily,And my ear received a whisper of it.

“Does not the ear test words,As the palate tastes its food?

“Behold, my eye has seen all this,My ear has heard and understood it.

“For when the ear heard, it called me blessed,And when the eye saw, it gave witness of me,

“For the ear tests wordsAs the palate tastes food.

“He opens their ear to instruction,And commands that they return from evil.

“He delivers the afflicted in their affliction,And opens their ear in time of oppression.

“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;But now my eye sees You;

For the choir director; for flute accompaniment. A Psalm of David.Give ear to my words, O Lord,Consider my groaning.

O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear

A Prayer of David.Hear a just cause, O Lord, give heed to my cry;Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

I have called upon You, for You will answer me, O God;Incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.

Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly;Be to me a rock of strength,A stronghold to save me.

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;Do not be silent at my tears;For I am a stranger with You,A sojourner like all my fathers.

Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear:Forget your people and your father’s house;

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.Hear this, all peoples;Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

I will incline my ear to a proverb;I will express my riddle on the harp.

Hear my prayer, O God;Give ear to the words of my mouth.

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.Give ear to my prayer, O God;And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;Incline Your ear to me and save me.

For the choir director; set to El Shoshannim; Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph.Oh, give ear, Shepherd of Israel,You who lead Joseph like a flock;You who are enthroned above the cherubim, shine forth!

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;Give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah.

A Prayer of David.Incline Your ear, O Lord, and answer me;For I am afflicted and needy.

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer;And give heed to the voice of my supplications!

Let my prayer come before You;Incline Your ear to my cry!

He who planted the ear, does He not hear?He who formed the eye, does He not see?

Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress;Incline Your ear to me;In the day when I call answer me quickly.

Because He has inclined His ear to me,Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.

I said to the Lord, “You are my God;Give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my supplications.

A Psalm of David.O Lord, I call upon You; hasten to me!Give ear to my voice when I call to You!

A Psalm of David.Hear my prayer, O Lord,Give ear to my supplications!Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!

Make your ear attentive to wisdom,Incline your heart to understanding;

My son, give attention to my words;Incline your ear to my sayings.

My son, give attention to my wisdom,Incline your ear to my understanding;

“I have not listened to the voice of my teachers,Nor inclined my ear to my instructors!

He whose ear listens to the life-giving reproofWill dwell among the wise.

The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge,And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

The hearing ear and the seeing eye,The Lord has made both of them.

He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poorWill also cry himself and not be answered.

Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise,And apply your mind to my knowledge;

Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine goldIs a wise reprover to a listening ear.

He who turns away his ear from listening to the law,Even his prayer is an abomination.

All things are wearisome;Man is not able to tell it.The eye is not satisfied with seeing,Nor is the ear filled with hearing.

Hear the word of the Lord,You rulers of Sodom;Give ear to the instruction of our God,You people of Gomorrah.

“Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered;And give ear, all remote places of the earth.Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

Give ear and hear my voice,Listen and hear my words.

Rise up, you women who are at ease,And hear my voice;Give ear to my word,You complacent daughters.

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and listen to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to reproach the living God.

Who among you will give ear to this?Who will give heed and listen hereafter?

“You have not heard, you have not known.Even from long ago your ear has not been open,Because I knew that you would deal very treacherously;And you have been called a rebel from birth.

The Lord God has given Me the tongue of disciples,That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word.He awakens Me morning by morning,He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

The Lord God has opened My ear;And I was not disobedientNor did I turn back.

“Pay attention to Me, O My people,And give ear to Me, O My nation;For a law will go forth from Me,And I will set My justice for a light of the peoples.

“Incline your ear and come to Me.Listen, that you may live;And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,According to the faithful mercies shown to David.

Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so shortThat it cannot save;Nor is His ear so dullThat it cannot hear.

For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear,Nor has the eye seen a God besides You,Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers.

Now hear the word of the Lord, O you women,And let your ear receive the word of His mouth;Teach your daughters wailing,And everyone her neighbor a dirge.

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart; therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.’”

And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

“At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you six years, you shall send him out free from you; but your forefathers did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.

Also I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, sending them again and again, saying: ‘Turn now every man from his evil way and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to worship them. Then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your forefathers; but you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.

You have heard my voice,“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,From my cry for help.”

O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.

Thus says the Lord,“Just as the shepherd snatches from the lion’s mouth a couple of legs or a piece of an ear,So will the sons of Israel dwelling in Samaria be snatched away—With the corner of a bed and the cover of a couch!

What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

And behold, one of those who were with Jesus reached and drew out his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.

But one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.

And one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

But Jesus answered and said, “Stop! No more of this.” And He touched his ear and healed him.

Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave’s name was Malchus.

One of the slaves of the high priest, being a relative of the one whose ear Peter cut off, *said, “Did I not see you in the garden with Him?”

but just as it is written,“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,And which have not entered the heart of man,All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.’

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.’

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’