Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Used frequently in a figurative sense (Ps. 34:15). ). 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).
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