yated · peg

What it means

yated (יָתֵד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “peg”.

Tent stake driven into the ground to stretch a tent; also a pin.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A spike driven in to hold a tent, or a nail in a wall.
2. A pin of the loom that holds the weaving in place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• peg ×10
• pegs ×10
• pin ×2
• stakes ×2

Where it appears

• Exodus×8
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×6
• Ezra×1
• Isaiah×4
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 27:19

  All the utensils of the dwelling for all its service, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the courtyard, shall be of bronze.

• Exodus 35:18

  the pegs of the dwelling and the pegs of the courtyard and their cords;

• Exodus 38:20

  And all the pegs for the dwelling and for the courtyard all around were of bronze.

• Exodus 38:31

  and the bases of the courtyard all around, and the bases of the gate of the courtyard, and all the pegs of the dwelling, and all the pegs of the courtyard all around.

• Exodus 39:40

  the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the courtyard, its cords and its pegs, and all the utensils for the service of the dwelling, for the tent of meeting;

• Numbers 3:37

  and the pillars of the court all around, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords.

• Numbers 4:32

  and the pillars of the court all around, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords, with all their utensils and with all their service; and by names you shall assign the utensils of the charge of their load.

• Deuteronomy 23:13

  And you shall have a peg among your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn back and cover your excrement.

• Judges 4:21

  But Jael the wife of Heber took the peg of the tent and put the hammer in her hand, and she came to him quietly and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; he was fast asleep and exhausted, and he died.

• Judges 4:22

  And look, Barak was pursuing Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” He went in with her, and there was Sisera, fallen dead, with the peg in his temple.

• Judges 5:26

  Her hand she stretched out to the peg, and her right hand to the mallet of the workmen; she hammered Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.

• Judges 16:14

  And she fastened it with the pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin of the loom and the warp.

• Ezra 9:8

  And now, for a brief moment there has been favor from YHWH our Elohim, to leave us escapees, and to give us a peg in his holy place, that our Elohim may brighten our eyes and give us a little life in our servitude.

• Isaiah 22:23

  And I will drive him as a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor for the house of his father.

• Isaiah 22:25

  On that day, declares YHWH Tsevaot, the peg that was driven in a secure place will give way; and it will be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off; for YHWH has spoken.”

• Isaiah 33:20

  Gaze on Zion, the town of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, and none of its cords will be broken.

• Isaiah 54:2

  “Enlarge the place of your tent, and the curtains of your dwellings let them stretch out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords, and your stakes strengthen.

• Ezekiel 15:3

  Is wood taken from it to make something useful? Or do they take from it a peg to hang on it any vessel?

• Zechariah 10:4

  From him the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the bow of war; from him will come out every ruler, together.

And 5 more times.