Fillet
King James Dictionary [1]
FIL'LET, n. L. filum.
1. A little band to tie about the hair of the head.
A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair.
2. The fleshy part of the thigh applied to veal as a fillet of veal. 3. Meat rolled together and tied round. 4. In architecture, a little square member or ornament used in divers places, but generally as a corona over a greater molding called also listel. 5. In heraldry, a kind of orle or bordure, containing only the third or fourth part of the breadth of the common bordure. it runs quite round near the edge, as a lace over a cloke. 6. Among painters and gilders, a little rule or reglet of leaf-gold, drawn over certain moldings, or on the edges of frames, pannels, &c., especially when painted white, by way of enrichment. 7. In the manege, the loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
FIL'LET,
1. to bind with a fillet or little band. 2. To adorn with an astragal. Exodus 38 .
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1):
(n.) The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
(2):
(n.) A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
(3):
(n.) A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.
(4):
(n.) A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.
(5):
(n.) A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.
(6):
(n.) A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.
(7):
(n.) A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.
(8):
(n.) An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
(9):
(n.) The thread of a screw.
(10):
(n.) A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.
(11):
(n.) The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.
(12):
(n.) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
(13):
(v. t.) To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
fil´et ( חוּט , ḥūṭ , חשׁק , ḥāshuḳ ):
(1) Ḥūt , from a root not used, meaning probably "to sew," therefore a string or a measuring rod or cord, and so a line, tape, thread, fillet. Jeremiah 52:21 translated "line" (the King James Version "fillet"), measuring 12 cubits long, encircling brass pillars standing 18 cubits high, part of the temple treasure plundered by the Chaldeans; and many other things "that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces." Translated "thread," used by Rahab, in Joshua 2:18 , and "cord," "Three fold ... is not quickly broken," in Ecclesiastes 4:12 .
(2) Ḥāshuḳ , from a root meaning "to join" and therefore something joined or attached, and so a rail or rod between pillars, i.e. a fillet. The hangings of the court of the tabernacle were supported by brass pillars set in brass sockets, "The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver" (Exodus 27:10 , Exodus 27:11 ). The embroidered screen for the door of the Tent was supported by five pillars socketed in brass: "And he overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold" (Exodus 36:38 ). The pillars for the court and the gate of the court had fillets of silver (Exodus 38:10 ). The verb is used in Exodus 27:17; Exodus 38:17 , "All the pillars of the court were filleted with silver."
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
is an erroneous translation in the A. V. of two Heb. words: חֲשֻׁקַים , chashukim', joinings (comp. Exodus 38:17; Exodus 38:28; Exodus 27:17), the poles or rods which served to join together the tops of the columns .around the court of the tabernacle (q.v.), and from which the curtains were suspended (Exodus 27:10-11; Exodus 36:38; Exodus 38:10-12; Exodus 38:17; Exodus 38:19). חוּט, chut, a thread (as elsewhere rendered), a measuring-line 12 cubits long for the circumference of the pillars of copper in Solomon's Temple (Jeremiah 52:21). (See Column); (See Garland).
