Bible Dictionary · N
Needle
Used only in the proverb, “to pass through a needle’s eye” (Matt 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25). Some interpret the expression as referring to the side gate, close to the principal gate, usually called the “eye of a needle” in the East; but it is rather to be taken literally. The Hebrew females were skilled in the use of the needle (Ex 28:39; Ex 26:36; Judg 5:30).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
