Vav is a hook. See this post for a description of the form of the letter and its role as a hook in the tabernacle. In Exodus 27:11 we have the instruction for the building of the tabernacle including the silver hooks of the pillars.
וָוֵי הָעַמֻּדִים וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶם, כָּסֶף [vavei ha'amudim vahasheqeihem kaseph] The hooks of the pillars and their attachments of silver.
חשק is a verb meaning to love, be attached to, long for, or be joined. As in English, 'attachment' can be literal - a hook to a pole, or figurative.
We have met several vavs in our existing vocabulary and verses.
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Diana mentioned to me to remember the emotional expression - getting hooked! This connects the meaning of vav with the meaning of the fillet (for which I search for a definition).
Fillet - rings clasping a pillar of the tabernacle or silver rods between the pillars. My offline Hebrew Latin concordance gives: delectare, placere, concupiscere or in the piel conjugation, coniungere, and the noun as desiderium, deliciae, of the word itself: cincturae, fasciae. To do with fastenings, hence my use of attachment.
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