then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails.

David prepared large quantities of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gates and for the clamps, and more bronze than could be weighed;

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

The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.

So the craftsman encourages the smelter,
And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil,
Saying of the soldering, “It is good”;
And he fastens it with nails,
So that it will not totter.

“They decorate it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.

Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.