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Fillets
Heb. hashukum, plur., joinings (Ex 27:17; Ex 38:17, Ex 38:28), the rods by which the tops of the columns around the tabernacle court were joined together, and from which the curtains were suspended (Ex 27:10, Ex 27:11; Ex 36:38).
In Jer 52:21 the rendering of a different word, hut, meaning a “thread,” and designating a measuring-line of 12 cubits in length for the circumference of the copper pillars of Solomon’s temple.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
