Word

קֶרֶס

qereç · H7165 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Thing

Loops and hooksCoverings13 verses

Meanings

hook, clasp

A piece of curved metal used for joining pieces of cloth together or for attaching them to another object

Examples
Exodus 26:6 “You shall also make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
Exodus 26:11 “You shall also make fifty clasps of bronze, and you shall put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it will be a unit.
Exodus 26:33 “You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and bring in the ark of the testimony there within the veil; and the veil shall serve as a partition for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

6 occurrences in 3 groups

זָהָבgold 2
נְחֹשֶׁתbronze, copper 2
הוּhis 2

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

4 occurrences in 1 groups

חֲמִשִּׁיםfifty 4

What is done to itIt is the object

5 occurrences in 2 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 4
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 4
תַּחַתunder, below, instead of 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Artifacts001003001001: The word means a clasp or tache, directly illustrated by the fifty gold and bronze clasps joining the tabernacle's curtain sets into a single unit (Exodus 26:6, 11, 33, 36:13).

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

קָרַס qâraç · H7164 · to stoop, to bow down · 2×קֶרֶסqereç · H7165קַרְסֹל qarçôl · H7166 · ankle · 2×כְּרֵשׂ kᵉrês · H3770 · stomach · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7165. qeres [קֶ֫רֶס] noun [masculine] hook, on edge of curtains of tabernacle, matching…

H7165. qeres
[קֶ֫רֶס] noun [masculine] hook, on edge of curtains of tabernacle, matching the loops (לֻלָאֹת, see [ לוּלַי]); plural קְרָסִים Exo 26:6, Exo 26:11 = Exo 36:13, Exo 36:18; Exo 26:33; construct זָהָב קַרְסֵי Exo 26:6 = Exo 36:13, ׳ק נְחשֶׁת Exo 26:11 = Exo 36:18; suffix קְרָסָיו Exo 35:11 = Exo 39:33.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Artifacts10 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0