מסמר

• מַשְׂמֵרָה, מַשְׂמְרָה, מִשְׂמֵרָה, מִשְׂמְרָה

Spelling borrowed from Aramaic מַסְמְרָא (masmərā, “pin, nail”).

Cognate with Arabic مسمار.

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מַסְמֵר • (masmér) m (plural indefinite מַסְמֵרִים) [pattern: מַקְטֵל]

1. nail (spiked-shape metal fastener)

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 89
• Haupt, Paul (1917) “The Disease of King Teumman of Elam”, in Journal of the Society of Oriental Research‎^[1], volume 1, page 90, derives the Aramaic and Hebrew from Assyrian Akkadian with s₁ as first radical, connecting to שָׁמִיר (šāmī́r, “adamant”), decidedly ignoring the occurrence in Qohelet with s₂ and claiming a vocalization masmár for the Hebrew, but a corresponding term in Akkadian seems still not attested and שָׁמִיר (šāmī́r, “adamant”) is probably an unproductive technical term.
• H4930 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• “מסמר” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language