Fillet
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(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.
King James Dictionary [2]
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 .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
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).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
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."
