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Strong's #3489 - יָתֵד
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- pin, stake, peg, nail
- pin, peg, tent pin, tent stake
- nail, pin (figuratively)
- pin (used in weaving)
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1487) dt (תד TD) AC: ? CO: ? AB: ?
L) dti (יתד YTD) AC: ? CO: Peg AB: ?: A peg, nail or pin for securing something.
Nf) dti (יתד YTD) - Peg: KJV (24): pin, nail, stake, paddle - Strongs: H3489 (יָתֵד)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
a. tent-pin Judges 5:26; Judges 4:21; יְתַדהָאֹהֶל Judges 4:22; read perhaps also Job 4:21 (figurative; compare II. יֶתֶר); often of tabernacle Exodus 27:19 (twice in verse); Exodus 35:18 (twice in verse); Exodus 38:20,31,21; "" מֵיתָרָיו Exodus 39:40, compare Numbers 3:37; Numbers 4:32 (all P); of Zion under figure of tent Isaiah 33:20; Isaiah 54:2; figurative of ruler as support of state Zechariah 10:4.
b. a peg for hanging Ezekiel 15:3; so figurative of Eliakim Isaiah 22:23,24; of secure position Ezra 9:8 (compare Arabic, see Thes Hi Hariri361Der., of a king).
c. for digging Deuteronomy 23:14 (= spade).
d. the pin or stick used in beating up the woof in the loom Judges 16:14a, see GFM PAOS, Oct. 1889, clxxvi. ff.; in היתד הּארג v b, del היתד (Id ib and in comm. on the passage)
יְתוּר Job 39:8, see תור.
יִתְלָה see תלה.
יתח (assumed by Thes as √ of following; compare Arabic beat with a club, chastise; club; Ba NB 294 derives תותךְ as loan-word from Assyrian tarta—u = club (or javelin, compare Dl HWB 630)).
יָתֵד const. יְתַד, plur. יְתֵדוֹת, m. Ezekiel 15:3, f. Isaiah 22:25; Deuteronomy 23:14.
(1) a pin, a nail, which is fixed into a wall, Ezekiel 15:3 Isa. loc. cit.; specially a pin of a tent, Exodus 27:19, 35:18 38:31 Judges 4:21, 22 Judges 4:22. To drive in a pin or nail, is in Hebrew (as in Arabic, see Vit. Tim. i. p. 134, 228, edit. Manger.), an image of a firm and stable abode, Isaiah 22:23 in which sense יָתֵד is used Ezra 9:8 comp. גָּדֵר verse Ezra 9:9, and the roots נָטַע, נָתַשׁ. Also, a nail or pin is used metaphorically of a prince, from whom the care of the whole state hangs as it were, Zechariah 10:4 the same person is also called פִּנָּה or corner stone, on whom the state is builded.
(2) a spade, paddle, Deuteronomy 23:14. יְתַד־הָאֶרֶג Judges 16:14, a weaver’s spatha. [In Thesaur. this last passage is not put under this head.]