Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To peen. 2. (v. t.) To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound. 3. (n.) A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt. 4. (n.) Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc. 5. (n.) Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle. 6. (n.) That which resembles a pin in its form or use 7. (n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings. 8. (n.) A linchpin. 9. (n.) A rolling-pin. 10. (n.) A clothespin. 11. (n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal. 12. (n.) The tenon of a dovetail joint. 13. (n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink. 14. (n.) The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. 15. (n.) Mood; humor. 16. (n.) Caligo. See Caligo. 17. (n.) An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin. 18. (n.) The leg; as, to knock one off his pins. 19. (n.) To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PIN (yathedh, from yathadh, "to drive in a peg"(?)): A cylindrical piece of wood or metal (e.g. brass, Exodus 27:19) such as that used by weavers in beating up the woof in the loom (Judges 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 those used in the tabernacle (Exodus 27:19; Exodus 35:18; Exodus 38:20, 31; 39:40 Numbers 3:37; Numbers 4:32 Judges 4:21, where the King James Version translates "nail," the Revised Version (British and American) "tent-pin"; compare Judges 5:26, where Hebrew has the same word, English Versions of the Bible "nail"). The tent-pin, like that of today, was probably sharpened at one end (Judges 4:21) and so shaped at the other as to permit the attaching of the cords so frequently mentioned in the same connection (Exodus 35:18; Exodus 39:40 Numbers 3:37; Numbers 4:32; compare Isaiah 33:20). From the acts of driving in the tent-pin (Taqa`) and pulling it out (nasa') are derived the technical Hebrew terms for pitching a tent and for breaking camp. See also CRISPING PINS (Isaiah 3:22, the Revised Version (British and American) "satchels"); STAKE. Nathan Isaacs

Multi-Version Concordance Pin (10 Occurrences) Judges 4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died. (WEB JPS ASV BBE YLT) 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 YLT) 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 YLT) Judges 16:13 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. (BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV) Judges 16:14 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) 1 Samuel 18:11 and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice. (WEB BBE NAS RSV NIV) 1 Samuel 19:10 Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night. (WEB BBE NAS RSV NIV) 1 Samuel 26:8 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you." (See RSV NIV) Psalms 22:16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet. (WEB) Ezekiel 15:3 Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)