קֶ֫רֶס
hook
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
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).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 6 times (60%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 4 times (40%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7165 appears — 7 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 7 verses
- Exodus 26:6 קַרְסֵ֣י בַּ/קְּרָסִ֔ים n c mp cs prep det + n c mp You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tent shall be a unit.
- Exodus 26:11 קַרְסֵ֥י הַ/קְּרָסִים֙ n c mp cs ptcl def.art + n c mp You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
- Exodus 26:33 הַ/קְּרָסִים֒ ptcl def.art + n c mp You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
- Exodus 35:11 קְרָסָי/ו֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms the tent, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
- Exodus 36:13 קַרְסֵ֣י בַּ/קְּרָסִ֔ים n c mp cs prep det + n c mp He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tent was a unit.
- Exodus 36:18 קַרְסֵ֥י n c mp cs He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
- Exodus 39:33 קְרָסָ֣י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms They brought the tent to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, it bars, its pillars, its sockets,
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.
“hook” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun קרס (qereç). It clusters heavily in Exodus, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It turns up in 7 verses across 1 book, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Exodus 26:6, it enters the text early. Translators differ — “taches” in the King James Version, then “clasps” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7165 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 7 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 7 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 7 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: Taches 9×
- American Standard Version: Clasps 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Clasps 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Clasps 6×, Clasps of 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7165 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7165 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7165 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7165 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- hook
Word origin
[ קֶ֫רֶס ] n.[m.] hook, on edge of curtains of tabern., matching the loops
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קרס (qâraç) (H7164) — to stoop.
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.
קָרַס
- (b. h.) to curve, contract, shrink.
- to warp; to crack from contraction. Gen. R. s. 12, end אם אני נותן … הם נִקְרָסִין Ar. (ed. מַקְרִיסִין Hif.) if I put hot water into them, they will burst; if cold, they will crack.
- 1. same, v. supra.—2) (of wine)
- to become sourish. Ber. 40ᵇ היין שה׳ Ms. F. a. Ar. (ed. שהִקְרִים); B. Bath. 95ᵇ Ms. H. (ed. שהקרים), v. קָרַם.
קְרַס
- ; part. pass. קְרִיס shrunk, dense. Targ. Job VI, 12 ed. Lag. (oth. ed. קרים, corr. acc.).
- , or Ithpe. אִקְּרִיס to become sourish. Ab. Zar. 30ᵃ bot. דאקריס Ar. a. ed. Cost. a. Vien. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 1; ed. דאקרים); B. Bath. 95ᵇ דאיקריס Ms. H. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 8; ed. דאקרים), v. קְרַם.
קֶרֶס
- hook, clasp. Pl. קְרָסִים. Pesik. Vayhi, p. 5ᵃ היו קַרְסֵי זהב וכ׳ the golden clasps were seen in the Tabernacle as stars are seen in the sky; Cant. R. to III, 11; Y. Meg. I, 72ᶜ sq.; Sabb. 99ᵇ top; a. e.
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 7 distinct written forms H7165 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּ/קְּרָסִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 26:6 | 2 |
| קַרְסֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 26:6 | 2 |
| קַרְסֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 26:11 | 2 |
| הַ/קְּרָסִים֒ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 26:33 | 1 |
| הַ/קְּרָסִים֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 26:11 | 1 |
| קְרָסָ֣י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 39:33 | 1 |
| קְרָסָי/ו֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 35:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7165, 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 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 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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