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Verse	Translation	Text
Ex 26:32	Strong Concordance	And thou shalt hang [05414] it upon four [0702] pillars [05982] of shittim [07848] wood overlaid [06823] with gold [02091]: their hooks [02053] shall be of gold [02091], upon the four [0702] sockets [0134] of silver [03701].
	King James	And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

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The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
shittim That is, acacia.

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]

shittim

That is, acacia.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Their hooks shall be of gold - וויהם vaveyhem, which we translate their hooks, is rendered κεφαλιδες, capitals, by the Septuagint, and capita by the Vulgate. As the word וו vav or vau, plural ווים vavim, occurs only in this book, Exo 26:32, Exo 26:37; Exo 27:10, Exo 27:11, Exo 27:17; Exo 36:36, Exo 36:38; Exo 38:10, Exo 38:11, Exo 38:12, Exo 38:17, Exo 38:19, Exo 38:28; and is used in these places in reference to the same subject, it is very difficult to ascertain its precise meaning. Most commentators and lexicographers think that the ideal meaning of the word is to connect, attach, join to, hook; and that the letter ו vau has its name from its hooklike form, and its use as a particle in the Hebrew language, because it serves to connect the words and members of a sentence, and the sentences of a discourse together, and that therefore hook must be the obvious meaning of the word in all the above texts. Calmet thinks this reason of no weight, because the ו vau of the present Hebrew alphabet is widely dissimilar from the vau of the primitive Hebrew alphabet, as may be seen on the ancient shekels; on these the characters appear as in the word Jehovah, Exo 28:36. This form bears no resemblance to a hook; nor does the Samaritan vau, which appears to have been copied from this ancient character. Calmet therefore contends, 1. That if Moses does not mean the capitals of the pillars by the ווים eht vavim of the text, he mentions them nowhere; and it would be strange that while he describes the pillars, their sockets, bases, fillets, etc., etc., with so much exactness, as will appear on consulting the preceding places, that he should make no mention of the capitals; or that pillars, every way so correctly formed, should have been destitute of this very necessary ornament. 2. As Moses was commanded to make the hooks, ווים vavim, of the pillars and their fillets of silver, Exo 27:10, Exo 27:11, and the hooks, vavim, of the pillars of the veil of gold, Exo 36:36; and as one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels were employed in making these hooks, vavim, overlaying their chapiters, ראשיהם rasheyhem, their heads, and filleting them, Exo 38:28; it is more reasonable to suppose that all this is spoken of the capitals of the pillars than of any kind of hooks, especially as hooks are mentioned under the word taches or clasps in other places. On the whole it appears much more reasonable to translate the original by capitals than by hooks. After this verse the Samaritan Pentateuch introduces the ten first verses of Exodus 30, and this appears to be their proper place. Those ten verses are not repeated in the thirtieth chapter in the Samaritan, the chapter beginning with the 11th verse.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

Their hooks shall be of gold - וויהם vaveyhem, which we translate their hooks, is rendered κεφαλιδες, capitals, by the Septuagint, and capita by the Vulgate. As the word וו vav or vau, plural ווים vavim, occurs only in this book, Exo 26:32, Exo 26:37; Exo 27:10, Exo 27:11, Exo 27:17; Exo 36:36, Exo 36:38; Exo 38:10, Exo 38:11, Exo 38:12, Exo 38:17, Exo 38:19, Exo 38:28; and is used in these places in reference to the same subject, it is very difficult to ascertain its precise meaning. Most commentators and lexicographers think that the ideal meaning of the word is to connect, attach, join to, hook; and that the letter ו vau has its name from its hooklike form, and its use as a particle in the Hebrew language, because it serves to connect the words and members of a sentence, and the sentences of a discourse together, and that therefore hook must be the obvious meaning of the word in all the above texts. Calmet thinks this reason of no weight, because the ו vau of the present Hebrew alphabet is widely dissimilar from the vau of the primitive Hebrew alphabet, as may be seen on the ancient shekels; on these the characters appear as in the word Jehovah, Exo 28:36. This form bears no resemblance to a hook; nor does the Samaritan vau, which appears to have been copied from this ancient character.

Calmet therefore contends,

1. That if Moses does not mean the capitals of the pillars by the ווים eht vavim of the text, he mentions them nowhere; and it would be strange that while he describes the pillars, their sockets, bases, fillets, etc., etc., with so much exactness, as will appear on consulting the preceding places, that he should make no mention of the capitals; or that pillars, every way so correctly formed, should have been destitute of this very necessary ornament.

2. As Moses was commanded to make the hooks, ווים vavim, of the pillars and their fillets of silver, Exo 27:10, Exo 27:11, and the hooks, vavim, of the pillars of the veil of gold, Exo 36:36; and as one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels were employed in making these hooks, vavim, overlaying their chapiters, ראשיהם rasheyhem, their heads, and filleting them, Exo 38:28; it is more reasonable to suppose that all this is spoken of the capitals of the pillars than of any kind of hooks, especially as hooks are mentioned under the word taches or clasps in other places. On the whole it appears much more reasonable to translate the original by capitals than by hooks.

After this verse the Samaritan Pentateuch introduces the ten first verses of Exodus 30, and this appears to be their proper place. Those ten verses are not repeated in the thirtieth chapter in the Samaritan, the chapter beginning with the 11th verse.

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²⁸ And of the thousand [0505] seven [07651] hundred [03967] seventy [07657] and five [02568] shekels he made [06213] hooks [02053] for the pillars [05982], and overlaid [06823] their chapiters [07218], and filleted [02836] them.

³⁶ And he made [06213] thereunto four [0702] pillars [05982] of shittim [07848] wood, and overlaid [06823] them with gold [02091]: their hooks [02053] were of gold [02091]; and he cast [03332] for them four [0702] sockets [0134] of silver [03701].

¹¹ And likewise for the north [06828] side [06285] in length [0753] there shall be hangings [07050] of an hundred [03967] cubits long [0753], and his twenty [06242] pillars [05982] and their twenty [06242] sockets [0134] of brass [05178]; the hooks [02053] of the pillars [05982] and their fillets [02838] of silver [03701].

¹⁰ And the twenty [06242] pillars [05982] thereof and their twenty [06242] sockets [0134] shall be of brass [05178]; the hooks [02053] of the pillars [05982] and their fillets [02838] shall be of silver [03701].

³⁶ And thou shalt make [06213] a plate [06731] of pure [02889] gold [02091], and grave [06605] upon it, like the engravings [06603] of a signet [02368], HOLINESS [06944] TO THE LORD [03068].

¹⁹ And their pillars [05982] were four [0702], and their sockets [0134] of brass [05178] four [0702]; their hooks [02053] of silver [03701], and the overlaying [06826] of their chapiters [07218] and their fillets [02838] of silver [03701].

¹⁷ And the sockets [0134] for the pillars [05982] were of brass [05178]; the hooks [02053] of the pillars [05982] and their fillets [02838] of silver [03701]; and the overlaying [06826] of their chapiters [07218] of silver [03701]; and all the pillars [05982] of the court [02691] were filleted [02836] with silver [03701].

¹² And for the west [03220] side [06285] were hangings [07050] of fifty [02572] cubits [0520], their pillars [05982] ten [06235], and their sockets [0134] ten [06235]; the hooks [02053] of the pillars [05982] and their fillets [02838] of silver [03701].

¹¹ And for the north [06828] side [06285] the hangings were an hundred [03967] cubits [0520], their pillars [05982] were twenty [06242], and their sockets [0134] of brass [05178] twenty [06242]; the hooks [02053] of the pillars [05982] and their fillets [02838] of silver [03701].

¹⁰ Their pillars [05982] were twenty [06242], and their brasen [05178] sockets [0134] twenty [06242]; the hooks [02053] of the pillars [05982] and their fillets [02838] were of silver [03701].

³⁸ And the five [02568] pillars [05982] of it with their hooks [02053]: and he overlaid [06823] their chapiters [07218] and their fillets [02838] with gold [02091]: but their five [02568] sockets [0134] were of brass [05178].

¹⁷ All the pillars [05982] round about [05439] the court [02691] shall be filleted [02836] with silver [03701]; their hooks [02053] shall be of silver [03701], and their sockets [0134] of brass [05178].

³⁷ And thou shalt make [06213] for the hanging [04539] five [02568] pillars [05982] of shittim [07848] wood, and overlay [06823] them with gold [02091], and their hooks [02053] shall be of gold [02091]: and thou shalt cast [03332] five [02568] sockets [0134] of brass [05178] for them.

³² And thou shalt hang [05414] it upon four [0702] pillars [05982] of shittim [07848] wood overlaid [06823] with gold [02091]: their hooks [02053] shall be of gold [02091], upon the four [0702] sockets [0134] of silver [03701].