πάσσαλος
peg, stake
Where this word appears
Every passage where πάσσαλος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 20 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 27:19 πάσσαλος And all the furniture and all the instruments and the pins of the court shall be of brass.
- Exodus 37:18 πάσσαλος And all the pins of the court round about of brass, and they were overlaid with silver.
- Exodus 38:21 πάσσαλος He made the pins of the tabernacle and the pins of the court of brass.
- Exodus 38:21 πάσσαλος He made the pins of the tabernacle and the pins of the court of brass.
- Exodus 39:8 πάσσαλος and they made of it the bases of the door of the tabernacle of witness,
- Exodus 39:8 πάσσαλος and they made of it the bases of the door of the tabernacle of witness,
- Exodus 39:21 πάσσαλος and all the vessels of the tabernacle and all its instruments: and the skins, even rams' skins dyed red, and the blue coverings, and the coverings of the other things, and the pins, and all the instruments for the works of the tabernacle of witness.
- Numbers 3:37 πάσσαλος and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pins, and their cords.
- Numbers 4:32 πάσσαλος And they shall bear the pillars of the court round about, and there shall be their sockets, and they shall bear the pillars of the veil of the door of the court, and their sockets and their pins, and their cords, and all their furniture, and all their instruments of service: take you⌃ their number by name, and all the articles of the charge of the things borne by them.
- Deuteronomy 23:14 πάσσαλος Because the Lord your God walks in your camp to deliver you, and to give up your enemy before your face; and your camp shall be holy, and there shall not appear in you a disgraceful thing, and so he shall turn away from you.
- Judges 4:21 πάσσαλος And Jael the wife of Chaber took a pin of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him, and fastened the pin in his temple, and it went through to the earth, and he fainted away, and darkness fell upon him and he died.
- Judges 4:21 πάσσαλος And Jael the wife of Chaber took a pin of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him, and fastened the pin in his temple, and it went through to the earth, and he fainted away, and darkness fell upon him and he died.
- Judges 4:22 πάσσαλος And, behold, Barac was pursuing Sisara: and Jael went out to meet him, and she said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek: and he went in to her; and, behold, Sisara was fallen dead, and the pin was in his temple.
- Judges 5:26 πάσσαλος She stretched forth her left hand to the nail, and her right to the hand workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara with it, she nailed through his head and struck him; she nailed through his temples.
- Judges 16:13 πάσσαλος And Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, you have deceived me, and told me lies; tell me, I entreat you, wherewith you may be bound: and he said to her, If you should weave the seven locks of my head with the web, and should fasten them with the pin into the wall, then shall I be weak as another man.
- Judges 16:14 πάσσαλος And it came to pass when he was asleep, that Dalida took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web, and fastened them with the pin into the wall, and she said, The Philistines are upon you, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep, and carried away the pin of the web out of the wall.
- Judges 16:14 πάσσαλος And it came to pass when he was asleep, that Dalida took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web, and fastened them with the pin into the wall, and she said, The Philistines are upon you, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep, and carried away the pin of the web out of the wall.
- Isaiah 33:20 πάσσαλος Behold the city of Sion, our refuge: your eyes shall behold Jerusalem, a rich city, tabernacles which shall not be shaken, neither shall the pins of her tabernacle be moved for ever, neither shall her cords be at all broken:
- Isaiah 54:2 πάσσαλος Enlarge the place of your tent, and of your curtains: fix the pins, spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pins;
- Ezekiel 15:3 πάσσαλος Will they take wood of it to make it fit for work? will they take of it a peg to hang any vessel upon it?
About this word
About this word
πάσσαλος (pássalos), “peg, stake,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 20 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →