Judges 16:14

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 whole framework, warp and all, out of the ground by the hair of his head.

The Greek versions, understanding pinin its ordinary meaning of peg, construct a different arrangement of the apparatus: they imply that the end of the loom was fastened by pegs into the wall opposite, and that Samson's hair was stretched horizontally with the warp. See the art. -Weaving" by Prof. A. R. S. Kennedy in the Encycl. Bibl., upon which the foregoing notes are based.