Hebrew word · H7165

קֶ֫רֶס

karsei

clasp

Clasp, hook, fastener. It is used only in the tabernacle accounts, for the gold (26:6) and bronze (26:11) clasps that joined the curtain panels.

Appears 10 times in 7 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

hook

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Exodus 26:33

Range of meaning

Clasp, hook, fastener. It is used only in the tabernacle accounts, for the gold (26:6) and bronze (26:11) clasps that joined the curtain panels.

Against the English

KJV 'taches' (an archaic word for clasps or buckles). Others: 'clasps' or 'hooks'. These are not the same as the 'hooks' (wāwîm) on the posts in v. 32.

Used elsewhere in the period

Exod 26:6, 11, 33; 35:11; 36:13, 18; 39:33.

Where it appears

Exodus · 10

  1. Exodus 26:6 קַרְסֵ֣י בַּקְּרָסִ֔ים hooks of, with the hooks

    Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.

  2. Exodus 26:11 קַרְסֵ֥י הַקְּרָסִים֙ hooks of, the hooks

    Make fifty bronze clasps and put them through the loops to join the tent together as a unit.

  3. Exodus 26:33 הַקְּרָסִים֒ the hooks

    And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

    Here: 'The clasps'. These are the fifty gold clasps that joined the two sets of five linen curtains into one tabernacle covering (26:6). The veil hangs below that join.

  4. Exodus 35:11 קְרָסָיו֙ hooks its

    the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;

    Here: The fasteners that join the two sets of curtains into a single whole: fifty gold clasps for the linen, fifty bronze for the goat hair (26:6, 11). Because of them, 'the Dwelling shall be one' (26:6).

  5. Exodus 36:13 קַרְסֵ֣י בַּקְּרָסִ֔ים hooks of, with the hooks

    He also made fifty gold clasps to join the curtains together, so that the tabernacle was a unit.

  6. Exodus 36:18 קַרְסֵ֥י hooks of

    He also made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together as a unit.

  7. Exodus 39:33 קְרָסָ֣יו hooks its

    Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, and its posts and bases;

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