cha.shuq denotes ring-like silver fittings associated with the court’s pillars in the construction descriptions.

The attested use is confined to plural construct forms naming ring-like fittings associated with pillars in court and entrance construction descriptions. The APB commonly presents these fittings as silver “rings,” while related verses use “bands” or describe the pillars as bound with silver.

1. Pillar-associated ring-like fittings · dominant

   The plural construct forms occur among the listed components of pillars: sockets, hooks, and silver fittings. In Exodus 27:10 the APB renders the clause with “silver hooks for the pillars and silver rings”; Exodus 36:38 places the term in a comparable list of a doorway’s pillars, hooks, capitals, bands, and sockets.

   Exodus 27:10Exodus 27:11Exodus 36:38Exodus 38:10Exodus 38:12Exodus 38:17

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB usually presents the pillar fittings as “rings,” as in Exodus 27:10 and Exodus 38:12. In Exodus 36:38 it uses “bands,” and Exodus 38:17 says the pillars “were bound with silver”; These are presentations of the clauses rather than fixed translations of the lemma.