5 occurrences

'Pin' in the Bible

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent-pin and a hammer and went up to him quietly, driving the pin into his head, and it went through his head into the earth, for he was in a deep sleep from weariness; and so he came to his end.

Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.

Verse ConceptsPeople Made KnownThose Looking For People

She put out her hand to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and she gave Sisera a blow, crushing his head, wounding and driving through his brow.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHandsPegsSharp ToolsKilling Named Individuals

Then Delilah said to Samson, Up to now you have made sport of me with false words; now say truly, how may you be put in bands? And he said to her, If you get the seven twists of my hair worked into the cloth you are making and fixed with the pin, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.

Verse ConceptsSpinning And WeavingTying Updreadlocks

So while he was sleeping she got the seven twists of his hair worked into her cloth and fixed with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. Then awaking from his sleep, he got up quickly, pulling up cloth and machine together.

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ξηραίνω 
Xeraino 
wither away , wither , dry up , pine away , be ripe
Usage: 12

πτερύγιον 
Pterugion 
Usage: 2

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain