Then Jael
Ya`el (yaw-ale')
Jael, a Canaanite -- Jael.
Heber's
Cheber (kheh'-ber)
community; Cheber, the name of a Kenite and of three Israelites -- Heber.
wife
'ishshah (ish-shaw')
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman
took
laqach (law-kakh')
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
a nail
yathed (yaw-thade')
a peg -- nail, paddle, pin, stake.
of the tent
'ohel (o'-hel)
a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance) -- covering, (dwelling)(place), home, tabernacle, tent.
and took
suwm (soom)
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)wholly, work.
an hammer
maqqebeth (mak-keh'-beth)
a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry -- hammer, hole.
in her hand
yad (yawd)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
and went
bow' (bo)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
softly
la't (lawt)
muffled, i.e. silently -- softly.
unto him and smote
taqa` (taw-kah')
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)
the nail
yathed (yaw-thade')
a peg -- nail, paddle, pin, stake.
into his temples
raqqah (rak-kaw')
thinness, i.e. the side of the head -- temple.
and fastened
tsanach (tsaw-nakh')
to alight; (transitive) to cause to descend, i.e. drive down -- fasten, light (from off).
it into the ground
'erets (eh'-rets)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land) -- common, country, earth, field, ground, land, natins, way, + wilderness, world.
for he was fast asleep
radam (raw-dam')
to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death) -- (be fast a-, be in a deep, cast into a dead, that) sleep(-er, -eth).
and weary
`uwph (oof)
to cover (with wings or obscurity); hence to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning)
So he died
muwth (mooth)
causatively, to kill