Fillets

"Heb. hashukum, plur., joinings (Ex. 27:17; 38:17, 28), the rods" by which the tops of the columns around the tabernacle court "were joined together, and from which the curtains were suspended" "(Ex. 27:10, 11; 36:38)." "In Jer. 52:21 the rendering of a different word, hut, meaning a "thread, and designating a measuring-line of 12 cubits in" length for the circumference of the copper pillars of Solomon's temple.