קֶרֶס
keres · clasp
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7165 · appears 10 times in the Bible
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keres (קֶרֶס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “clasp”.
Hook for joining two pieces.
How to say it
ke·res
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A hook that joins the curtains.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 26:6
You shall make fifty clasps of gold and join the curtains one to another with the clasps, so that the dwelling shall be one whole.
- Exodus 26:11
You shall make fifty clasps of bronze and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent so that it is one whole.
- Exodus 26:33
You shall hang the veil under the clasps, and bring there, inside the veil, the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall separate for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.
- Exodus 35:11
the dwelling, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its boards, its bars, its pillars and its bases;
- Exodus 36:13
And he made fifty clasps of gold and joined the curtains, one to another, with the clasps, so that the dwelling became one.
- Exodus 36:18
And he made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent to be one.
- Exodus 39:33
And they brought the dwelling to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its bases;
And 3 more times.