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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 27:4/אבן עזרא על שמות כ״ז:ד׳
אמכבר. כמו כברה (עמוס ט):
1A GRATING. The word mikhbar (a grating) is similar in meaning to the word kevarah (sieve) (Amos 9:9).
בונחשת. דבק כאילו כתוב מכבר נחשת כמעשה רשת:
2BRASS. The word brass (nechoshet) is connected [to the word grating].20 (network), which precedes it, for reshet (network) is connected to ma’aseh, not to nechoshet. Our verse, which reads, mikhbar ma’aseh reshet nechoshet (a grating of network of brass) is to be interpreted as if written: mikhbar nechoshet ma’aseh reshet (a grating of brass, of network). The text should be interpreted as if it read, a grating of brass, constructed like a net.21