Dict: easton - Nail

easton:

Nail @ for fastening.

(1.) Hebrew yathed, "piercing," a peg or nail of any material kjv@Ezekiel:15:3), more especially a tent-peg kjv@Exodus:27:19 kjv@Exodus:35:18 kjv@Exodus:38:20 ), with one of which Jael (q.v.) pierced the temples of Sisera kjv@Judges:4:21-22). This word is also used metaphorically kjv@Zechariah:10:4) for a prince or counsellor, just as "the battle-bow" represents a warrior.

(2.) Masmer, a "point," the usual word for a nail. The words of the wise are compared to "nails fastened by the masters of assemblies" kjv@Ecclesiastes:12:11, A.V.). The Revised Version reads, "as nails well fastened are the words of the masters," etc. Others (as Plumptre) read, "as nails fastened are the masters of assemblies" (comp. kjv@Isaiah:22:23; kjv@Ezra:9:8). David prepared nails for the temple ( kjv@1Chronicles:22:3; kjv@2Chronicals:3:9). The nails by which our Lord was fixed to the cross are mentioned kjv@John:20:25; kjv@Colossians:2:14). Nail of the finger (Heb. tsipporen, "scraping"). To "pare the nails" is in kjv@Deuteronomy:21:12 (marg., "make," or "dress," or "suffer to grow") one of the signs of purification, separation from former heathenism (comp. kjv@Leviticus:14:8; kjv@Numbers:8:7). In kjv@Jeremiah:17:1 this word is rendered "point."