Lexical Definition

‎מַסְמֵר‎ maçmêr (mas-mare') nail ^H:N-F
or מִסְמֵר miçmêr (mis-mare'); also (feminine) מַסְמְרָה maçmᵉrâh (mas-mer-aw'); or מִסְמְרָה miçmᵉrâh (mis-mer-aw'); or even מַשְׂמְרָה masmᵉrâh (mas-mer-aw'); (Ecclesiastes 12:11), from ‎סָמַר‎

nail.

• a peg (as bristling from the surface)

1) nail

See Greek: ἧλος · ἧλος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎מַסְמֵר‎] noun masculine^{Eccl 12:11} nail (connection with above √ dubious; ᵑ7 ‎מַסְמְרָא‎, ChrPalAramaic Schw^{63. 122}; Late Hebrew verb ‎סמר‎ nail on or up; Arabic is perhaps loan-word Frä⁸⁹); — plural absolute ‎מַסְמְרִים‎ Isa 41:7, ‎מִסְמְרִים‎ 1Chr 22:3 (of iron; on ‎ִ֯‎ see Ges^{«GKC:85f»§ 85f}.); also ‎מַסְמְרוֺת‎ Jer 10:4 (+ ‎מַקָּבוֺת‎), ‎מַשְׂמְרוֺת נְטוּעִים‎, Eccl 12:11(simile; + ‎דָּרְבֹנוֺת‎), and ‎מִסְמְרוֺת‎ 2Chr 3:9 (of gold).

[‎מַשְׂמֵר‎], ‎מַשְׂמְרוֺת‎, Eccl 12:14, see [ ‎מַסְמֵר‎].

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