Clasp
קֶ֫רֶסStrong’s H7165qeres (qe-res)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qeres is the Hebrew word usually translated “hooks of”, “hooks” and “hooks its”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.”
Meaning
- Hook
How it's translated
- hooks of 4
- with the hooks 2
- the hooks 2
- hooks its 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 7
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:11And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
- Exodus 26:33And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
- Exodus 35:11The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
- Exodus 36:13And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
- Exodus 36:18And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
- Exodus 39:33And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫רֶס qeres · clasp
hook
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “clasp” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLASP, noun
- A hook for fastening; a catch; a small hook to hold together the covers of a book, or the different parts of a garment, of a belt, etc.
- A close embrace; a throwing of the arms round.
All definitions and other forms of “clasp”
CLASP, verb transitive
- To shut or fasten together with a clasp
- To catch and hold by twining; to surround and cling to; as the clasping ivy.
- To inclose and hold in the hand; or simply to inclose or encompass with the fingers.
- To embrace closely; to throw the arms round; to catch with the arms.
- To inclose, and press.
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.