Peg יָתֵד

Inspiring Words Knight Vision · May 5, 2026 · 2m

We are in chapter thirty-eight of Exodus with our word for today. יָתֵד peg, pin, nail, a holding, tent pin, tent peg. It is used 24 times in the Old Testament, three times in our chapter. We find our word used four times to describe how Jael used it as a weapon when God delivered his people from the Canaanites. Judges 4:21-22 But Jael the wife of Heber took a יְתַ֨ד tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove הַיָּתֵד֙ the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died. And behold, as Barak…