יָתֵד
peg
also: pin, stake, nail fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3489 appears in the Book of Exodus — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus
- Exodus 27:19 יְתֵדֹתָ֛י/ו יִתְדֹ֥ת n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fp cs All the instruments of the tent in all its service, and all the pins of it, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
- Exodus 35:18 יִתְדֹ֧ת יִתְדֹ֥ת n c fp cs n c fp cs the pins of the tent, the pins of the court, and their cords;
- Exodus 38:20 הַ/יְתֵדֹ֞ת ptcl def.art + n c fp All the pins of the tent, and around the court, were of brass.
- Exodus 38:31 יִתְדֹ֧ת יִתְדֹ֥ת n c fp cs n c fp cs the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tent, and all the pins around the court.
- Exodus 39:40 וִ/יתֵדֹתֶ֑י/הָ conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3fs the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tent, for the tent of meeting,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
יתד — transliterated yâthêd — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “peg.” The King James Version usually renders it “nail,” while modern versions prefer “tent pegs” (Berean Standard Bible) and “peg” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 19 verses in 8 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Exodus (26% of all occurrences). It also covers “pin”, “stake”, and “nail”, alongside “peg” — see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3489 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 19
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 19 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,327
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,327 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 19 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 19 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 53%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 42%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Nail 7×, Pins 5×, All the pins 3×
- American Standard Version: Pins 4×, All the pins 3×, Nail 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tent pegs 9×, Peg 4×, Tent peg 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Peg 7×, Tent pegs 3×, Tent pegs of 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3489 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3489 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3489 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3489 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- a. 2 Ju 5:26; 4:21; יְתַד הָאֹהֶל v 22; read perhaps also Jb 4:21 (fig.; cf. ii. יֶתֶר); often of tabernacle Ex 27:19(×2); 35:18(×2); 38:20, 31(×2); ‖מֵיתָרָיו 39:40, cf. Nu 3:37; 4:32 (all P); of Zion under fig. of tent Is 33:20; 54:2; fig. of ruler as support of state Zc 10:4. e.g. Judges 5:26
- b. a peg for hanging Ez 15:3; so fig. of Eliakim Is 22:23, 24; of secure position Ezr 9:8 (cf. Arabic, v. Thes Hi Hariri 361 Der., ثابت الأَوْتَادِ of a king). e.g. Ezekiel 15:3
- c. for digging Dt 23:14 (= spade). e.g. Deuteronomy 23:14
- d. the pin or stick used in beating up the woof in the loom Ju 16:14a, vid. GFMPAOS, Oct. 1889, clxxvi. ff.; in היתד הארג v b, del. היתד (Id.ib and in Comm. ad loc.) e.g. Judges 16:14
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. Dt 23:14 Ju 4:21 peg, pin (NH id.; Arabic وَتِدٌ )—יָתֵד Dt 23:14 + 9 times; cstr. יְתַד Ju 4:21; 16:14 (where c. art. but v. Ges§ 127, R. 4a); pl. יְתֵדֹת Ex 38:20; cstr. יִתְדֹת 27:19 + 4 times; sf. וִיתֵידֹתַיִךְ Is 54:2; יְתֵדֹתָיו Ex 27:19 Is 33:20; וִיתֵדֹתֶיהָ Ex 39:40; וִיתֵדֹתָם Nu 3:37; 4:32;—pin, peg, especially
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to pin through or fast
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יָתֵד
- [something fastened, driven in,] peg, nail; handle of a tool &c. Y. Taan. IV, 67ᵈ אשרי אדם … י׳ להיתלות בה (cmp. Is. XXII, 23, sq.) happy the man who has a peg to hang on, i.e. who has a renowned ancestry; ומה היתה יְתֵידָתוֹ וכ׳ and what was R. E.’s. peg?; Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵈ top. Gitt. 17ᵃ י׳ היא שלא תמוט (my last opinion) is an immovable peg. Meg. 6ᵃ והיא היתה י׳ תקועה וכ׳ and she (Cæsarea) was a peg driven into Israel, i.e. an obnoxious foreign element.—י׳ של מחרישה the pin of the plough. Sabb. XVII, 4; a. e, v. מַחֲרֵישָׁה.—י׳ האהל tent-pin, v. infra.—י׳ הדרכים a way-mark of hardened clay pegs, v. גֵּץ; v. infra.—Pl. יְתֵדוֹת, יְתֵידוֹת. Gen. R. s. 43 שלשה י׳ גדולות three great pegs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob). Gen. R. s. 62 נתגרו בהן י׳ הארץ the pegs of the land (the remnants of the seven nations, cmp. Num. XXXIII, 55) arose against them. Kel. XIV, 3 י׳ אהלים י׳ המשוחות Mish. ed. (Bab. ed. ידות) the (metal) pegs of tents and those of the land measurers. Tosef. Kel. B. Bath. I, 7 החרב שפרשה עם י׳ המחרישה the knife (coulter) which has been taken out with the handle of the plough. Mikv. IX, 2 י׳ הדרכים, expl. גץ יוני. Tosef. ib. VI (VII), 14. B. Kam. 81ᵃ מסתלקין מפני י׳ הד׳ … you may (in walking) turn out from the highway towards the private sidewalk in order to avoid the road-pegs; Y. Ber. II, end, 5ᵈ top. e.g. Isaiah 22:23
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 19 distinct written forms H3489 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 16 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 19 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 27:19
- Numbers 3:37
- Deuteronomy 23:13
- Judges 4:21
- Ezra 9:8
- Isaiah 22:23
- Ezekiel 15:3
- Zechariah 10:4
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
