Rings

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Genesis 24:22Torrey Antiquity of

  And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;

• Genesis 38:18Torrey Antiquity of

  And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

• Genesis 41:42Torrey WERE WORN — On the hands

  And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

• Numbers 31:50Torrey Made of gold and set with precious stones

  We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.

• Numbers 31:51Torrey Made of gold and set with precious stones

  And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.

• 2 Samuel 1:10Torrey WERE WORN — On the arms

  So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.

• Esther 3:10Torrey OF KINGS — Given to favourites as a mark of honour

  And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

• Esther 3:12Torrey OF KINGS — Used for sealing decrees

  Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people…

• Esther 8:2Torrey OF KINGS — Given to favourites as a mark of honour

  And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

• Esther 8:8Torrey OF KINGS — Used for sealing decrees

  Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.

• Esther 8:10Torrey OF KINGS — Used for sealing decrees

  And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:

• Job 42:11Torrey WERE WORN — In the ears

  Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him:…