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# מִכְבָּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4345

**grating** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

grating [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4345/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִכְבָּר: n.m. grating lattice-work [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4345/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. grating or lattice-work, cstr. מִכְבַּר;—Ex 27:4 and thou shalt make for it (the alter of burnt-offering in the tab.) מִכְבָּר מַעֲשֵׂה רֶשֶׁת נְחשֶׁת a grating, (even) a network of bronze, which surrounded the lower half of the altar (v 5b): so 38:4; מִכְבַּר הַנְּחשֶׁת 35:16; 38:5, 30; 39:39.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the grating (4); a grating (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 38:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.5/#tree)

וַיִּצֹ֞ק אַרְבַּ֧ע טַבָּעֹ֛ת בְּאַרְבַּ֥ע הַקְּצָוֺ֖ת לְמִכְבַּ֣ר הַנְּחֹ֑שֶׁת בָּתִּ֖ים לַבַּדִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.cast four rings on the.four the ends for the.grating of.(the) bronze holders for the poles

*JPS 1917:* And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be holders for the staves.

[Exodus 38:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.4/#tree)

וַיַּ֤עַשׂ לַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ מִכְבָּ֔ר מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה רֶ֣שֶׁת נְחֹ֑שֶׁת תַּ֧חַת כַּרְכֻּבּ֛וֹ מִלְּמַ֖טָּה עַד־חֶצְיֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.made for the altar a.grating a.work of.a.net of.bronze under ledge its from to downwards to middle its

*JPS 1917:* And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4345/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).