Bible Dictionary · E
Ear
Used frequently in a figurative sense (Ps 34:15). To “uncover the ear” is to show respect to a person (1 Sam 20:2 marg.). To have the “ear heavy”, or to have “uncircumcised ears” (Isa 6:10), is to be inattentive and disobedient. To have the ear “bored” through with an awl was a sign of perpetual servitude (Ex 21:6).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
