Bible Dictionary: Tent-pin

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Strong's Hebrew

8628. taqa -- to thrust, clap, give a blow, blast
... A primitive root; to clatter, ie Slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument);
by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to ...
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Library

Women who Saved a Nation
... She put her hand to the tent-pin, Her right hand to the workman's hammer. She struck
Sisera, crushing his head, She shattered, she pierced his temples. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/women who saved a nation.htm

God's Use of Weak Things.
... A nail or tent-pin, only a wooden peg, in the hands of a woman with a hammer helps
to make the enemy's defeat more decisive.[27] Three hundred young men with ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on service/gods use of weak things.htm

The Marvels of Holy Scripture, --Moral and Physical. --Jael's Deed ...
... With a faith strong and undoubting as Rahab's, Jael,"weak woman as she is,"seizes
the wooden tent-pin and the mallet, (the only weapons which are within ...
/.../burgon/inspiration and interpretation/sermon vii the marvels of.htm

High Doctrine
... He did not leave so much as one tent-pin, one single line or yard of canvas to be
afterwards arranged; the whole of the tabernacle was given by pattern in the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/high doctrine.htm

Sleep Not
... sin; for, lo! she cometh stealthily, the tent pin is in her left hand, and
in her right hand the workman's hammer. Many mighty has ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/sleep not.htm

Hearken and Look; Or, Encouragement for Believers
... His was the faith which could drive the tent-pin into a foreign soil, or
roll up the canvas and seek another unknown halting place. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 27 1881/hearken and look or encouragement.htm

A Homily for Humble Folks
... His greatest victories were won by a hammer and a tent-pin, by an ox-goad, by
the jawbone of an ass, by a sling and a stone, and such like. ...
/.../spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/a homily for humble folks.htm

The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus
... According to the prose version (iv.17-22), Jael slew Sisera while he was
asleep with a tent-pin, which she drove into his temple. ...
/.../chapter iiithe hebrews and the.htm

Against Jovinianus.
The Principal Works of St. Jerome. <. ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/against jovinianus.htm

Thesaurus

Tent-pin (4 Occurrences)
Tent-pin. Tent-makers, Tent-pin. Tent-pins . Multi-Version Concordance
Tent-pin (4 Occurrences). Judges 4:21 Then Jael ...
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Pin (10 Occurrences)
... 16:14, where Delilah fastened Samson's hair with the "pin"); or as a peg for hanging
(Ezekiel 15:3; compare Isaiah 22:23 Ezra 9:8); or as a tent-pin, such as ...
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Driving (144 Occurrences)
... Judges 4:21 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 ...
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You're (8 Occurrences)
... searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched
out dead with the tent-pin in his head. (See NIV). Judges ...
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Quietly (30 Occurrences)
... Judges 4:21 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 ...
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Nail (9 Occurrences)
... (2) As pin or peg (for tents, or driven into the wall) the word is yathedh (in Judges
4:21 the Revised Version (British and American), "tent-pin"); in Isaiah 22 ...
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Jael (6 Occurrences)
... When sleep came to the wearied fugitive she took a "tent-pin, and took a hammer
in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples ...
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Wounding (24 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Judges 5:26 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 ...
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Workman's (1 Occurrence)
... Judges 5:26 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 ...
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Weariness (44 Occurrences)
... Judges 4:21 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 ...
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Bible Concordance

Tent-pin (4 Occurrences)

Judges 4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
(See JPS ASV BBE)

Judges 4:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest. And he came unto her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.
(See JPS ASV BBE)

Judges 5:26 She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head; Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.
(See JPS ASV BBE)

Ezekiel 12:7 And I did as I was ordered: I took out my vessels by day, like those of one who is taken away, and in the evening I made a hole through the wall with a tent-pin; and in the dark I went out, taking my things on my back before their eyes.
(BBE)

Subtopics

Tent-pin

Related Terms

Pin (10 Occurrences)

Driving (144 Occurrences)

You're (8 Occurrences)

Quietly (30 Occurrences)

Nail (9 Occurrences)

Jael (6 Occurrences)

Wounding (24 Occurrences)

Workman's (1 Occurrence)

Weariness (44 Occurrences)