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.
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Gill's Exposition
And she fastened it with the pin,.... That is, after she had interwoven the locks of his hair into the warp, she fastened the beam on which it was with the pin, that it might not roll back; or else…
Barnes' Notes
And she fastened it with the pin ... - The meaning of the verses seems to be that the seven long plaits, in which Samson’s hair was arranged, were to be woven as a woof into the threads of a warp…
The burnt child dreads the fire; yet Samson, that has more than the strength of a man, in this comes short of the wisdom of a child; for, though he had been more than once brought into the highest…
Cambridge Bible
the pin of the beam The Hebrew is ungrammatical and gives the impression that the pinhas been intruded. Instead of beamrender loom ("ereg, Job 7:6). The general sense is clear: Samson pulled up the…