The word in Scripture

Nail in the Bible

The word nail appears 8 times in the King James Version of the Bible. A nail fastens and, at the cross, pierced our Redeemer. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What nail means in the Bible

A nail fastens and, at the cross, pierced our Redeemer.

Where the word nail appears

Here is every passage where the word nail appears, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.”Judges 4:21

“And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.”Judges 4:22

“She 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.”Judges 5:26

“And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.”Ezra 9:8

“And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.”Isaiah 22:23

“In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.”Isaiah 22:25

“Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.”Zechariah 10:4