Ring
חָשׁוּקStrong’s H2838chashuq (cha-shuq)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chashuq is the Hebrew word usually translated “bands their”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.”
Meaning
- Fillets, bindersrings clasping a pillar of the tabernacle or silver rods between the pillars
How it's translated
- and bands their 8
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 8
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 27:11And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
- Exodus 36:38And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
- Exodus 38:10Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
- Exodus 38:11And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
- Exodus 38:12And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
- Exodus 38:17And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
Hebrew dictionary
חָשׁוּק chashuq · ring
1) fillets, binders 1a) rings clasping a pillar of the tabernacle or silver rods between the pillars
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RING, noun
- A circle, or a circular line, or any thing in the form of a circular line or hoop. Exodus 25:12
- A circular course.
All definitions and other forms of “ring”
RING, noun
[from the verb.]
- A sound; particularly, the sound of metals; as the ring of a bell.
- Any loud sound, or the sounds of numerous voices; or sound continued, repeated or reverberated; as the ring of acclamations.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
RING, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive rung.
RING, verb transitive
[from the noun.
- To encircle.
- To fit with rings, as the fingers, or as a swine's snout.
RING, verb intransitive
- To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
- To practice the art of making music with bells.
- To sound; to resound.
- To utter, as a bell; to sound.
- To tinkle; to have the sensation of sound continued.
- To be filled with report or talk.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.