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Judges 4

Judg. 4:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then Jael
Ya`el (Hebrew #3278)
Jael, a Canaanite
KJV usage: Jael.
Pronounce: yaw-ale'
Origin: the same as 3277
Heber’s
Cheber (Hebrew #2268)
community; Cheber, the name of a Kenite and of three Israelites
KJV usage: Heber.
Pronounce: kheh'-ber
Origin: the same as 2267
wife
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
took
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
a nail
yathed (Hebrew #3489)
a peg
KJV usage: nail, paddle, pin, stake.
Pronounce: yaw-thade'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to pin through or fast
of the tent
'ohel (Hebrew #168)
a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance)
KJV usage: covering, (dwelling)(place), home, tabernacle, tent.
Pronounce: o'-hel
Origin: from 166
, and κtook
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
an hammer
maqqebeth (Hebrew #4718)
properly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry
KJV usage: hammer, hole.
Pronounce: mak-keh'-beth
Origin: from 5344
in her hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
, and went
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
softly
la't (Hebrew #3814)
properly, muffled, i.e. silently
KJV usage: softly.
Pronounce: lawt
Origin: from 3813 (or perhaps for active participle of 3874)
unto him, and smote
taqa` (Hebrew #8628)
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)
KJV usage: blow ((a trumpet)), cast, clap, fasten, pitch (tent), smite, sound, strike, X suretiship, thrust.
Pronounce: taw-kah'
Origin: a primitive root
the nail
yathed (Hebrew #3489)
a peg
KJV usage: nail, paddle, pin, stake.
Pronounce: yaw-thade'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to pin through or fast
into his temples
raqqah (Hebrew #7541)
properly, thinness, i.e. the side of the head
KJV usage: temple.
Pronounce: rak-kaw'
Origin: feminine of 7534
k, and fastened
tsanach (Hebrew #6795)
to alight; (transitive) to cause to descend, i.e. drive down
KJV usage: fasten, light (from off).
Pronounce: tsaw-nakh'
Origin: a primitive root
it into the ground
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
: for he was fast asleep
radam (Hebrew #7290)
to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death)
KJV usage: (be fast a-, be in a deep, cast into a dead, that) sleep(-er, -eth).
Pronounce: raw-dam'
Origin: a primitive root
and weary
`uwph (Hebrew #5774)
to cover (with wings or obscurity); hence (as denominative from 5775) to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning)
KJV usage: brandish, be (wax) faint, flee away, fly (away), X set, shine forth, weary.
Pronounce: oof
Origin: a primitive root
. So he died
muwth (Hebrew #4191)
causatively, to kill
KJV usage: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
Pronounce: mooth
Origin: a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively)
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put.
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Psa. 3:7• 7Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. (Psa. 3:7)

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Hammer,
Heber,
Jael,
Nail,
Tent,
Wife

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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took.
Judg. 3:21,31• 21And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
 31And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel. (Judg. 3:21,31)
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Judg. 5:26• 26She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. (Judg. 5:26)
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Judg. 15:15• 15And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. (Judg. 15:15)
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1 Sam. 17:43,49‑50• 43And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
 49And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
 50So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. (1 Sam. 17:43,49‑50)
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1 Cor. 1:19,27• 19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
 27But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; (1 Cor. 1:19,27)
a nail.One of the spikes of the tent.
See Note on Ex 35:18.and took.
Heb. and put.
smote.
Psa. 3:7• 7Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. (Psa. 3:7)
he died.
Judg. 5:27• 27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. (Judg. 5:27)
• The instrument she used for Israel's deliverance was even more worthless than Shamgar's, for the only weapons she had were the tools of a woman who keeps the tent; it is with them that she deals the fatal blow to the head of the enemy. Jael, like Deborah and every woman of faith, does not go at all beyond her sphere. She carries out her work of vengeance inside her dwelling, with the arms with which the tent supplied her, and gains the victory there. (“A Good Conscience”)
• The faith of these women shines out in this chapter-Jael does not, like Barak, seek a helper; she depends entirely on the Lord. The secret of her action lies between herself and God. She handles the weapons belonging to her contracted sphere, as skillfully as a man could have done; for had her hand trembled in the very least, all would have been compromised. Alone (her husband, her natural protector, being absent), but with the Lord, she-one in heart with all the arrayed armies of Israel-fights under her tent. (“A Good Conscience”)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jael Heber’s wife took a tent-pin, and took the hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it penetrated into the ground; for he had fallen into a deep sleep and was faint; and he died.