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# קֶרֶס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7165

**hook** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hook [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7165/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫רֶס: hook [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7165/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hook, on edge of curtains of tabern., matching the loops (לֻלָאֹת, v. \[לוּלַי\]); pl. קְרָסִים Ex 26:6, 11 = 36:13, 18, 26:33; cstr. קַרְסֵי זָהָב v 6 = 36:13, ק׳ נְחשֶׁת 26:11 = 36:18; sf. קְרָסָיו 35:11 = 39:33.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hooks (10).

## In the verses

[Exodus 36:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.18/#tree)

וַיַּ֛עַשׂ קַרְסֵ֥י נְחֹ֖שֶׁת חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים לְחַבֵּ֥ר אֶת־הָאֹ֖הֶל לִֽהְיֹ֥ת אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.made hooks of.bronze fifty to join.together (et) the tent to be one

*JPS 1917:* And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

[Exodus 26:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.11/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֛יתָ קַרְסֵ֥י נְחֹ֖שֶׁת חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים וְהֵבֵאתָ֤ אֶת־הַקְּרָסִים֙ בַּלֻּ֣לָאֹ֔ת וְחִבַּרְתָּ֥ אֶת־הָאֹ֖הֶל וְהָיָ֥ה אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make hooks of.bronze fifty and you.will.put (et) the hooks in the loops and you.will.join.together (et) the tent and it.will.be one

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7165.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7165/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).