The Letter Vav - Symbol of Connection

And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks [vavim] were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.

Exodus 36:36

The name of the sixth letter וו (vav, S# H2053) means a nail or hook. It appears thirteen times in Exodus in the description of the Tabernacle, translated as "hook". This seamlessly integrates with the grammar of the Hebrew language where Vav functions as the copulative - the Hebrew form of and - when prefixed to a word. Vav "hooks" the words together. This is how it is used in all the