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     * pillars of shittim.
     # 37; 36:38; Es 1:6|
     * their hooks shall be of gold.
       The Hebrew {waveyhem,} which we translate their hooks, is
       rendered by the LXX. [kephalides,] and by the Vulgate,
       {capiata,} capitals.  Hence Calmet contends, 1.  That if Moses
       does not mean the capitals of the pillars by this word, he
       mentions them nowhere else; and it would seem strange, that
       while he describes them with so much exactness, that he should
       not mention the capitals; or that pillars every way so
       correctly formed, should have been destitute of this necessary
       ornament.  2.  As Moses was commanded to make the {wavim} of
       the pillars, and their fillets, of silver, (ch. 27:10, 11,)
       and the {wavim} of the pillars of the vail of gold, (ch.
       36:36,) and that 1,775; shekels were employed in making them,
       overlaying their chapiters, {rasheyhem,} their heads, and
       filleting them, (ch. 38:28,) it is more reasonable to suppose
       that all this is spoken of the capitals of pillars, than of
       any kind of hooks, especially as hooks are mentioned under the
       word taches or clasps.  But as the root {wavah} seems to
       signify to connect, (for [wwy,] in Arabic, is to marry a
       wife,) and as the letter [ww,] {wav,} if it has not its
       name from its hook-like form, is yet used as a connective
       particle, it would rather appear to denote hooks, which
       connected the curtains or vails to the pillars.  The LXX. also
       render it [agkulai,] "handles", and [krikoi,] "rings" or "clasps".