פירוש על שופטים 4:21

A tent peg. "Chevilles" in old French. This is embedded in the ground with the lower flap of the tent in order to extend it fully.

A tent peg: The peg that is made to be planted into the ground [together] with the lower edges of the tent.

Nail

A hammer. Hammer, "martel" in old French.

Stealthily: So that he not wake him up from his sleep.

the name of the utensil, and with it you hit the peg into the ground. and in Yeshiyahu 44: 12 "And fashions it by hammering."

Furtively. Stealthily, in secret.

And she fastened it to the ground: She hit the peg with the hammer, until it passed [through] his temple and became stuck in the ground.

With secrecy and stealth, as in Ruth 3:7 "she came secrecy and she revealed her legs."

And impaled it into the ground.וּנְעַצַתְּ בְּאַרְעָא,¹²This is Targum Yonasan’s rendition. and impaled it into the ground.

For he was fast asleep: That is to say, since he was fast asleep because of the milk, and he was exhausted because he had been fleeing on his feet - so because of this, he died immediately.

she embedded it and hid it

this the side of the height of the face, as in Song of Songs 4:3 "Your brow behind your veil [Gleams] like a pomegranate split open." and its called this because of the lack of flesh on it as in Bresheit 41:19 "emaciated."

its a matter of thrusting/inserting. as in Judges 1:14 she implanted [her feet] from off the donkey

from the language of deep sleep

a matter of exhaustion.