then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;

The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair was grown like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws].

Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was diverse from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;

Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father's house.

"In that day," says Yahweh of Armies, "the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it."

From him will come forth the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.