Pin
Pin
(, yathed), a tent-pin, spoken of the copper pegs driven into the ground to hold the cords of the court (Exo 27:19; Exo 35:18; Exo 38:20; Exo 38:31; Exo 39:40; Num 3:37; Num 4:32), or for any other purpose (Jdg 16:14; Eze 15:3), being the same word elsewhere usually rendered nail (Jdg 4:21-22; v, 26; Ezr 9:8; Isa 22:22; Isa 22:25; Zec 10:4), occasionally stake (Isa 33:20; Isa 54:2), once paddle (Deu 23:13). SEE NAIL.
Pins, in the modern sense of the word, used for fastening the dress, were no doubt in use among the Hebrews, as we know they were among the Egyptians, but they were frequently made of bone or wood, and bore a considerable resemblance to skewers, as did those used even in England till a comparatively recent period. The forms of the Egyptian pins may be seen in the British Museum. Pins and needles were among the articles of the toilet which have occasionally been found in the tombs. The former are frequently of considerable length, with large gold heads; and some, of a different form, tapering gradually to a point, merely bound with gold at the upper end, without any projecting head (seven or eight inches in length), appear to have been intended for arranging the plaits or curls of hair, like those used in England in the days of Elizabeth for nearly the same purpose (Wilkinson, Anc. Egypt. 2, 344). SEE CRISPING-PIN.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Pin (2)
(acus) in ecclesiastical use. Pins made of precious metal, and, in later mediaeval times, enriched with jewels, were used for attaching the archiepiscopal (or papal) pallium to the planeta or casula (chasuble). The earliest mention of these is, probably, the description given by Joannes Diaconus of the pallium of Gregory the Great. Their first use, therefore, must probably date between the close of the 6th and the beginning of the 9th century. Innocent assigns to these pins a certain mystical significance.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Pin
(, yathedh, from yathadh, to drive in a peg(?)): A cylindrical piece of wood or metal (e.g. brass, Exo 27:19) such as that used by weavers in beating up the woof in the loom (Jdg 16:14, where Delilah fastened Samson’s hair with the pin); or as a peg for hanging (Eze 15:3; compare Isa 22:23 f; Ezr 9:8); or as a tent-pin, such as those used in the tabernacle (Exo 27:19; Exo 35:18; Exo 38:20, Exo 38:31; Exo 39:40; Num 3:37; Num 4:32; Jdg 4:21, where the King James Version translates nail, the Revised Version (British and American) tent-pin; compare Jdg 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 (Jdg 4:21) and so shaped at the other as to permit the attaching of the cords so frequently mentioned in the same connection (Exo 35:18; Exo 39:40; Num 3:37; Num 4:32; compare Isa 33:20). From the acts of driving in the tent-pin (taka) and pulling it out (nasa’) are derived the technical Hebrew terms for pitching a tent and for breaking camp. See also CRISPING PIN (Isa 3:22, the Revised Version (British and American) satchels); STAKE.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Pin
See Nail
Nail