What Does Exodus 27:4 Mean in the King James?

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.

Exodus 27:4 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The altar’s bronze grate is called a net, the same Hebrew word that can name a snare, so its open mesh is built to hold what enters it.

THE MEANING

You see a bronze grate worked as a net, with four bronze rings placed at its four corners. The mesh stays open, while the rings give its edges places to be attached. The verse holds interwoven openness and firm placement together in one object.

THE ROOT

רֶשֶׁת

resheth

GROWS FROM

ר־ש־ת

A net: an interwoven mesh that catches or holds.

English “network” can sound like a general pattern, but ⁨רֶשֶׁת⁩ is a concrete net. The same word names this bronze grate and the concealed net in Psalm 9:15, keeping openwork and capture together.

ALSO GROWS

resheth: Net, mesh, or lattice.

רֶשֶׁת

Here it names the openwork of the bronze grate.

rashat: To catch or ensnare with a net.

רָשַׁת

This verb reveals the net’s capacity to hold what enters its strands, as the net does in Psalm 9:15.

THE PATTERN

A net is an open weave that catches and holds what enters its strands.

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.

Exodus 27:4 · KJVThe altar’s grate is an openwork net made of bronze, with rings at its four corners.

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

Psalm 9:15 · KJVThe net’s open strands catch a foot, turning mesh into a snare.

Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.

Luke 5:4 · KJVThe nets are lowered into the water to gather what enters them.

THE THREAD

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

Psalm 9:15 · KJV

The grate’s “network” is ⁨רֶשֶׁת⁩, the same Hebrew word translated “net” here. In one verse it names bronze mesh; in the other, a concealed snare, the shared root holds both uses together.

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