pillars of shittim

Êxodo 26:37
Para essa cortina farás cinco colunas de acácia, que recobrirás de ouro fino, com seus colchetes também de ouro; e fundirás para elas cinco bases de bronze.

Êxodo 36:38
com suas cinco colunas e respectivos ganchos. Revestiram de ouro as partes superior e lateral das colunas e fizeram de bronze suas cinco bases.

Ester 1:6
O jardim possuía grandes cortinas em tecido branco, verde e azul celeste, atadas a finas argolas de prata e a colunas de mármore puro com cordões de linho da melhor qualidade e em tecido púrpura. Também havia assentos de ouro e de prata sobre um piso ornamentado com mosaicos de pórfiro, isto é, madrepérola, salpicado de pedras preciosas incrustadas.

their hooks shall be of gold.

1775 shekels were employed in making them, overlaying their chapiters, rasheyhem, their heads, and filleting them, it is more reasonable to suppose that all this is spoken of the capitals of pillars, than of any kind of hooks, especially as hooks are mentioned under the word taches or clasps. But as the root wavah seems to signify to connect, if it has not its name from its hook-like form, is yet used as a connective particle, it would rather appear to denote hooks, which connected the curtains or vails to the pillars.