Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2053
וָו
vavvaw
hook
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: vâv
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2053is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2053
a hook (the name of the sixth Hebrew letter)
The King James renders it: hook.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
vav is rendered "hook". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Thirteen of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 26:32Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
Exodus 26:32וָוֵיהֶ֖ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Thirteen of the word's thirteen uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- hooks of6
- hooks their6
- hooks1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וָוֵ֧י5
- וָוֵיהֶ֖ם4
- וָוֵ֨י1
- וָ֣וֵיהֶ֔ם1
- וָוֵיהֶ֣ם1
- וָוִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)6HNcmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural6HNcmpc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
Exodus
thirteen uses
Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
- וָוֵיהֶ֖םvaveihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: hooks their
Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases for them.
- וָוֵיהֶ֖םvaveihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: hooks their
with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
- וָוֵ֧יvaveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hooks of
Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
- וָוֵ֧יvaveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hooks of
All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.
- וָוֵיהֶ֖םvaveihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: hooks their
He also made four posts of acacia wood for it and overlaid them with gold, along with gold hooks; and he cast four silver bases for the posts.
- וָוֵיהֶ֖םvaveihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: hooks their
together with five posts and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, and their five bases were bronze.
- וָ֣וֵיהֶ֔םvaveihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: hooks their
with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
- וָוֵ֧יvaveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hooks of
The north side was also a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.
- וָוֵ֧יvaveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hooks of
The west side was fifty cubits long and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.
- וָוֵ֧יvaveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hooks of
The bases for the posts were bronze, the hooks and bands were silver, and the plating for the tops of the posts was silver. So all the posts of the courtyard were banded with silver.
- וָוֵ֨יvaveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hooks of
with four posts and four bronze bases. Their hooks were silver, as well as the bands and the plating of their tops.
- וָוֵיהֶ֣םvaveihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: hooks their
With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.
- וָוִ֖יםvavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: hooks
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.