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title: קֶרֶס — hook · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֶרֶס (7165), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: hook. BDB 1906: hook. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֶרֶס

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«קֶרֶס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hook** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 10 times · **Key:** 7165 · **BDB:** קֶ֫רֶס

### Glosses

hooks (10)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קֶרֶס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7165/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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