CLASPS (taches, קְּרָסִ֔ים), implements used to fasten the curtains of the Tabernacle together (Exod 26:1-6 KJV). Those coupling the linen curtains were of gold (v. 6) while those for coverings of goats’ hair were of copper alloy (KJV, “brass,” v. 11), fifty in either case. The “loops” (לֻ֣לָאֹ֔ת) in the edges of the strips require these clasps be more like the Rom. fibula, a pin or large edition of the “common” pin. But possibly they may have been open circles, as indicated from the root קרס, “to bend down.” The veil was hung by means of these implements (26:23).