Judges 5:26
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She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples.

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1 Samuel 17:49-51 And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast it with the sling, and fetching it about, struck the Philistine in the forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth. . . .

2 Samuel 20:22 So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely: and they cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to Joab. And he sounded the trumpet, and they departed from the city, every one to their home: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

Context
The Song of Deborah and Barak
25He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter in a dish fit for princes. 26She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples.27Between her feet he fell: he fainted, and he died: he rolled before her feet, and there he lay lifeless and wretched.…
Cross References
Judges 4:21
So Jahel, Haber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and taking also a hammer: and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon the temples of his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it through his brain fast into the ground: and so passing from deep sleep to death, he fainted away and died.

Judges 5:25
He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter in a dish fit for princes.

Judges 5:27
Between her feet he fell: he fainted, and he died: he rolled before her feet, and there he lay lifeless and wretched.

Lexicon
She reached
תִּשְׁלַ֔חְנָה (tiš·laḥ·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7971: To send away, for, out

for the tent peg,
לַיָּתֵ֣ד (lay·yā·ṯêḏ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3489: A peg, pin

her right
וִֽימִינָ֖הּ (wî·mî·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3225: The right hand, side, the south

hand
יָדָהּ֙ (yā·ḏāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3027: A hand

for the workman's
עֲמֵלִ֑ים (‘ă·mê·lîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6001: Toiling, a laborer, sorrowful

hammer.
לְהַלְמ֣וּת (lə·hal·mūṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1989: A hammer, mallet

She struck
וְהָלְמָ֤ה (wə·hā·lə·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1986: To strike down, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband

Sisera
סִֽיסְרָא֙ (sî·sə·rā)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5516: Sisera -- a general of the king of Hazor, also the father of some returning exiles

and crushed
מָחֲקָ֣ה (mā·ḥă·qāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4277: To utterly destroy, annihilate

his skull;
רֹאשׁ֔וֹ (rō·šōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7218: The head

she shattered
וּמָחֲצָ֥ה (ū·mā·ḥă·ṣāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4272: To dash asunder, to crush, smash, violently plunge, to subdue, destroy

and pierced
וְחָלְפָ֖ה (wə·ḥā·lə·p̄āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2498: To slide by, to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce, change

his temple.
רַקָּתֽוֹ׃ (raq·qā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7541: Thinness, the side of the head


Additional Translations
She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman's hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.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.

She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head; Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.

She stretched forth her left hand to the nail, and her right to the hand workman's hammer, and she smote Sisara with it, she nailed through his head and smote him; she nailed through his temples.

She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And she smote Sisera, she struck through his head, Shattered and pierced through his temples.

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 through his head, yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.

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 struck through his temples.

She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.

Her hand to the pin she sendeth forth, And her right hand to the labourers' hammer, And she hammered Sisera -- she smote his head, Yea, she smote, and it passed through his temple.
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