HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2838
חָשׁוּק
cha.shuq — ring
1) fillets, binders 1a) rings clasping a pillar of the tabernacle or silver rods between the pillars
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Fillets
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Heb. hashukum, plur., joinings (Ex. 27:17; 38:17, 28), the rods by which the tops of the columns around the tabernacle court were joined together, and from which the curtains were suspended (Ex. 27:10, 11; 36:38). In Jer. 52:21 the rendering of a different word, hut, meaning a “thread,” and designating a measuring-line of 12 cubits in length for the circumference of the copper pillars of Solomon’s temple.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.