King James Version
Exodus 38:10 in the King James Version says “Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 38 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.”
Exodus 38:10 · KJV
And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. lookingglasses: or, brasen glasses assembling: Heb. assembling by troops
And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
And 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.
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“and their brasen”
H5178copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e., coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)
“and their fillets”
H2838attached, i.e., a fence-rail or rod connecting the posts or pillars
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