machber · grating

What it means

machber (מַכְבֵּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grating”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Bronze lattice of the altar, made like a net.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus 27:4

  You shall make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and you shall make on the network four rings of bronze at its four corners.

• Exodus 35:16

  the altar of burnt offering and its grating of bronze that belongs to it, its poles and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;

• Exodus 38:4

  And he made for the altar a grating, a work of network of bronze, under its ledge, from below up to its middle.

• Exodus 38:5

  And he cast four rings on the four corners of the grating of bronze, as holders for the poles.

• Exodus 38:30

  And with it he made the bases of the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the altar of bronze, and the grating of bronze that belonged to it, and all the utensils of the altar,

• Exodus 39:39

  the bronze altar and the grating of bronze that belonged to it, its poles and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;