Crisping-pin

Crisping-pin appears in Isaiah 3:22 in the list of ornaments and accessories of the daughters of Zion that God declares will be removed in judgment. The Hebrew charit (from a root meaning to cut or engrave) is understood variously as a hair-curling iron, a crisping pin for curling hair, or as the Revised Version suggests, a satchel or bag. The same word appears in 2 Kings 5:23 rendered as bags, where Naaman's silver was carried in two bags.

The identification with a hair-curling implement — a heated implement for curling or crimping hair — is the traditional English reading, reflected in the King James rendering. Isaiah 3:18–23 catalogues an extensive list of ornamental accessories worn by the women of Jerusalem's elite, their removal in Isaiah's oracle representing the stripping away of the trappings of pride and luxury. Whether crisping-pin refers to a hairdressing implement or a purse, it belongs to the world of feminine adornment that the prophet places under divine judgment.