'Ears' in the Bible

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.

He fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain came up on a single stalk, plump and good.

Then behold, seven ears, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them.

The thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven ears, full and good, came up on a single stalk;

and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;

and the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. Then I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”

The seven good cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one and the same.

The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven thin ears scorched by the east wind will be seven years of famine.

Then Judah approached him, and said, “Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.

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.

Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, “Oh that someone would give us meat to eat! For we were well-off in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat and you shall eat.

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

The Lord said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”

For this reason You are great, O Lord God; for there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

“In my distress I called upon the Lord,Yes, I cried to my God;And from His temple He heard my voice,And my cry for help came into His ears.

Now a man came from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, “Give them to the people that they may eat.”

‘Because of your raging against Me,And because your arrogance has come up to My ears,Therefore I will put My hook in your nose,And My bridle in your lips,And I will turn you back by the way which you came.

therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.

O Lord, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

“Now, O my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

“Listen carefully to my speech,And let my declaration fill your ears.

“Sounds of terror are in his ears;While at peace the destroyer comes upon him.

“Abaddon and Death say,‘With our ears we have heard a report of it.’

Then He opens the ears of men,And seals their instruction,

In my distress I called upon the Lord,And cried to my God for help;He heard my voice out of His temple,And my cry for help before Him came into His ears.

The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteousAnd His ears are open to their cry.

Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;My ears You have opened;Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.O God, we have heard with our ears,Our fathers have told usThe work that You did in their days,In the days of old.

A Maskil of Asaph.Listen, O my people, to my instruction;Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

And my eye has looked exultantly upon my foes,My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.

They have ears, but they cannot hear;They have noses, but they cannot smell;

Lord, hear my voice!Let Your ears be attentiveTo the voice of my supplications.

They have ears, but they do not hear,Nor is there any breath at all in their mouths.

Apply your heart to disciplineAnd your ears to words of knowledge.

Like one who takes a dog by the earsIs he who passes by and meddles with strife not belonging to him.

In my ears the Lord of hosts has sworn, “Surely, many houses shall become desolate,Even great and fine ones, without occupants.

“Render the hearts of this people insensitive,Their ears dull,And their eyes dim,Otherwise they might see with their eyes,Hear with their ears,Understand with their hearts,And return and be healed.”

And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,And He will not judge by what His eyes see,Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;

It will be even like the reaper gathering the standing grain,As his arm harvests the ears,Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grainIn the valley of Rephaim.

Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.

Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded,And the ears of those who hear will listen.

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity,He who rejects unjust gainAnd shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe;He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshedAnd shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

Then the eyes of the blind will be openedAnd the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

“Because of your raging against MeAnd because your arrogance has come up to My ears,Therefore I will put My hook in your noseAnd My bridle in your lips,And I will turn you back by the way which you came.

You have seen many things, but you do not observe them;Your ears are open, but none hears.

Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,And the deaf, even though they have ears.

“The children of whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears,‘The place is too cramped for me;Make room for me that I may live here.’

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord,“I remember concerning you the devotion of your youth,The love of your betrothals,Your following after Me in the wilderness,Through a land not sown.

‘Now hear this, O foolish and senseless people,Who have eyes but do not see;Who have ears but do not hear.

To whom shall I speak and give warningThat they may hear?Behold, their ears are closedAnd they cannot listen.Behold, the word of the Lord has become a reproach to them;They have no delight in it.

Yet they did not listen or incline their ears, but stiffened their necks in order not to listen or take correction.

and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold I am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.

But they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn sacrifices to other gods.

Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”

“Son of man, you live in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.

I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

I will set My jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your survivors will be consumed by the fire.

that on that day he who escapes will come to you with information for your ears?

The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and give attention to all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show it to you. Declare to the house of Israel all that you see.”

The Lord said to me, “Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the statutes of the house of the Lord and concerning all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with all exits of the sanctuary.

Nations will see and be ashamedOf all their might.They will put their hand on their mouth,Their ears will be deaf.

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears from hearing.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

He who has ears, let him hear.”

For the heart of this people has become dull,With their ears they scarcely hear,And they have closed their eyes,Otherwise they would see with their eyes,Hear with their ears,And understand with their heart and return,And I would heal them.’

But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.

Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

And if this should come to the governor’s ears, we will win him over and keep you out of trouble.”

And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

[If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”]

Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put His fingers into his ears, and after spitting, He touched his tongue with the saliva;

And his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly.

Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember,

For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy.

Other seed fell into the good soil, and grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times as great.” As He said these things, He would call out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

“Let these words sink into your ears; for the Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.”

It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

“You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.

But they cried out with a loud voice, and covered their ears and rushed at him with one impulse.

The news about them reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas off to Antioch.

For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.”

For the heart of this people has become dull,And with their ears they scarcely hear,And they have closed their eyes;Otherwise they might see with their eyes,And hear with their ears,And understand with their heart and return,And I would heal them.”’

just as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor,Eyes to see not and ears to hear not,Down to this very day.”

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

“For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous,And His ears attend to their prayer,But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”