חָשׁוּק
fillets
‘fillets’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H2838 appears — 8 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 8 verses
- Exodus 27:10 וַ/חֲשֻׁקֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and the pillars of it shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
- Exodus 27:11 וַ/חֲשֻׁקֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and the pillars of it twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 36:38 וַ/חֲשֻׁקֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of brass.
- Exodus 38:10 וַ/חֲשֻׁקֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
- Exodus 38:11 וַ/חֲשֻׁקֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 38:12 וַ/חֲשׁוּקֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp 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 38:17 וַ/חֲשׁוּקֵי/הֶם֙ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
- Exodus 38:19 וַ/חֲשֻׁקֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, חשק (châshuq) means “fillets.” Its uses cluster heavily in Exodus (100% of all occurrences). With 8 verses in 1 book, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The King James Version usually renders it “fillets,” while modern versions prefer “bands” (Berean Standard Bible) and “rings” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2838 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 8 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fillets 8×
- American Standard Version: Fillets 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bands 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rings 5×, Rings of 3×, Were of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2838 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2838 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2838 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2838 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- fillets, binders
- rings clasping a pillar of the tabernacle or silver rods between the pillars
Word origin
[ חָשׁוּק ] n.[m.] fillet or ring clasping ( binding ) a pillar of the tabernacle
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חשק (châshaq) (H2836) — to love.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חָשַׁק
- (b. h.) to press, tie, surround. Ab. Zar. 35ᵃ (ref. to Cant. I, 2) חֲשׁוֹק שׂפתותיך זו בזו press thy lips together and be not too hasty in replying.—2) (cmp. חָפַץ) to be attached to, in love with; to elect. Tosef. Yeb. VIII, 4 חָשְׁקָה … בתורה my soul has chosen the Law (as bride); Yeb. 63ᵇ. Ḥull. 89ᵃ (ref. to Deut. VII, 7) חוֹשְׁקַנִי בכם I elected you. e.g. Song of Solomon 1:2
חֲשַׁק
- , to bandage, saddle, harness. Targ. II Sam. XIX, 27.—Part. pass. חָשֵׁיק, pl. חֲשִׁיקִין, f. חֲשִׁיקַן. Targ. Jud. XIX, 10. Ib. V, 10.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H2838 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַ/חֲשֻׁקֵי/הֶ֖ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 27:10 | 6 |
| וַ/חֲשׁוּקֵי/הֶ֖ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 38:12 | 1 |
| וַ/חֲשׁוּקֵי/הֶם֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 38:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2838, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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