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Judges 16:14
“And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H8628 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become bondsman by handclasping)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- blow (a trumpet), cast, clap, fasten, pitch (tent), smite, sound, strike, [idiom] suretiship, thrust.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- תִּתְקַע֙ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 70 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 31:25Genesis 31:25Exodus 10:19Numbers 10:3Numbers 10:4
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read תָּקַע here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.