Bible Dictionaries
Peg

Holman Bible Dictionary

A small, cylindrical or tapered piece of wood (or some other material). Pegs were used: to secure tents (Judges 4:21-22; Judges 5:26 ); to hang articles (Isaiah 22:23 ,Isaiah 22:23,22:25; Ezekiel 15:3 ); to weave cloth (Judges 16:14 ); even to dig latrines (Deuteronomy 23:13 ). Isaiah 22:23-25 used the image of a peg which gives way to picture false security in a leader. Zechariah 10:4 used the peg as one of several images for rulers. In Isaiah 33:22 secure tent pegs symbolize that God keeps Jerusalem secure. The enlarged tent and strengthened tent pegs of Isaiah 54:2 illustrate God's restoration of Jerusalem.