Grate
מִכְבָּרStrong’s H4345makhber (makh-ber)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Makhber is the Hebrew word usually translated “grating of” and “grating”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.”
Meaning
- Grating, lattice-work
How it's translated
- grating of 3
- a grating 2
- for grating of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 6
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 35:16The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
- Exodus 38:4And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
- Exodus 38:5And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
- Exodus 38:30And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
- Exodus 39:39The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
Hebrew dictionary
מִכְבָּר makhber · grate
grating, lattice-work
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRATE, noun
[Latin crates, a grate a hurdle.]
- A work or frame, composed of parallel or cross bars, with interstices; a kind of lattice-work, such as is used in the windows of prisons and cloisters.
- An instrument or frame of iron bars for holding coals, used as fuel, in houses, stores, shops, etc.
All definitions and other forms of “grate”
GRATE, verb transitive
To furnish with grates; to make fast with cross bars.
GRATE, verb transitive
[Latin rado.]
- To rub, as a body with a rough surface against another body; to rub one thing against another, so as to produce a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth.
- To wear away in small particles, by rubbing with any thing rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.
- To offend; to fret; to vex; to irritate; to mortify; as, harsh words grate the heart; they are grating to the feeling; harsh sounds grate the ear.
- To make a harsh sound, by rubbing or the friction of rough bodies.
GRATE', verb intransitive
To rub hard, so as to offend; to offend by oppression or importunity.
- To make a harsh sound by the friction of rough bodies.
GRATE, adjective
[Latin gratus.]
Agreeable. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.