Easton's Bible Dictionary A network of brass for the bottom of the great altar of sacrifice (Exodus 27:4; 35:16; 38:4, 5, 30). Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Serving to gratify; agreeable. 2. (n.) A structure or frame containing parallel or crossed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used in the windows of prisons and cloisters. 3. (n.) A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning. 4. (v. t.) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window. 5. (v. t.) To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing. 6. (v. t.) To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg. 7. (v. t.) To fret; to irritate; to offend. 8. (v. i.) To make a harsh sound by friction. 9. (v. i.) To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia GRATE; GRATING grat, grat'-ing (mikhbar, resheth; the King James Version Grate): This "grating of network of brass" (Exodus 27:4; Exodus 38:4), called also "the net" (Exodus 27:4 f), and "grating of brass" (Exodus 38:4), was that reticulated casting or wrought work of bronze which, in the tabernacle system, formed an element of the altar of sacrifice. Its position is well defined: "Thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar" (Exodus 27:5; compare Exodus 38:4). The altar being a hollow box-"hollow with planks" (Exodus 27:8)-3 cubits high, overlaid with brass, and presumably filled with stones, there appears to have been a ledge round about it halfway from the base, from which depended vertically this grating of bronze. On the grating were four rings through which the staves were passed by which the altar was borne (Exodus 27:4, 7). If the ledge was for the priests to stand on while handling the sacrifices on the altar, the grating need be thought of only as an ornamental support for the ledge. Others ascribe to it different uses. W. Shaw Caldecott

Multi-Version Concordance Grate (6 Occurrences) Exodus 27:4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof. (KJV WBS YLT) Exodus 35:16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brazen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot, (KJV WBS YLT) Exodus 38:4 And he made for the altar a brazen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it. (KJV WBS YLT) Exodus 38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves. (KJV WBS YLT) Exodus 38:30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar, (KJV WBS YLT) Exodus 39:39 The brazen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot, (KJV WBS YLT)