Vav denotes the metal fittings associated with pillars, repeatedly described as gold or silver in the tabernacle court accounts.

The attested use consistently concerns fittings belonging to pillars: the construct plural identifies the pillars’ fittings in construction and inventory descriptions, while Exodus 38:28 describes making such fittings for the pillars and treating their heads in the same work.

1. Pillar fittings in tabernacle construction · dominant

   The construct plural occurs with pillars throughout the instructions and construction reports. In Exodus 26:32 the APB renders the clause “their hooks of gold” after four acacia pillars, and in Exodus 38:17 it lists “the hooks of the pillars” as silver among the court-pillar materials. Exodus 38:28 uses the absolute plural in a making clause: the APB renders that the metal was made “into hooks for the pillars.”

   Exodus 26:32Exodus 27:17Exodus 38:17Exodus 38:28

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB regularly presents the term as “hooks,” often with “of the pillars” or “for the pillars.” This rendering is confirmation from the surrounding construction clauses rather than a complete lexical equation.