nechoshet · bronze, copper

What it means

nechoshet (נְחֹשֶׁת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bronze, copper”.

Copper or bronze; also bronze chains.

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, or things made of bronze.
2. Bronze chains.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Bronze or copper; and what is made of it: objects, chains. BDB adds that it can be a coin or a fetter and, figuratively, what is base, as compared with gold or silver.

• Tools of bronze and iron Genesis 4:22
• The serpent of bronze Numbers 21:92 Kings 18:4
• Goliath's armor 1 Samuel 17:5
• The bronze work of the temple 1 Kings 7:14
• Bronze chains 2 Kings 25:7

Historical and cultural background

According to 2 Kings 18:4, Hezekiah broke in pieces “the bronze serpent that Moses had made”, because the sons of Israel were burning incense to it; “it was called Nehushtan”.

How we translate it

“Bronze” 137 times, “copper” 2, “chains” 1. It is translated “copper” when the ore is meant (Deuteronomy 8:9). נְחַשׁ הַנְּחֹשֶׁת is “the serpent of bronze” or “the bronze serpent”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bronze ×137
• copper ×2
• chains ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×39
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×3
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×5
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×13
• 2 Kings×12
• 1 Chronicles×11
• 2 Chronicles×14
• Ezra×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×14
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×8
• Daniel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 4:22

  And Zillah, she also, gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of every tool of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

• Exodus 25:3

  And this is the contribution that you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze;

• Exodus 26:11

  You shall make fifty clasps of bronze and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent so that it is one whole.

• Exodus 26:37

  You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast for them five bases of bronze.

• Exodus 27:2

  You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

• Exodus 27:3

  You shall make its pots for removing its ashes, and its shovels, its bowls, its forks, and its firepans; all its utensils you shall make of bronze.

• 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 27:6

  You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

• Exodus 27:10

  and its pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods shall be of silver.

• Exodus 27:11

  And likewise for the north side, in length, hangings a hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods shall be of silver.

• Exodus 27:17

  All the pillars of the courtyard all around shall be joined with rods of silver; their hooks of silver and their bases of bronze.

• Exodus 27:18

  The length of the courtyard shall be a hundred cubits, the width fifty all along, and the height five cubits, of fine twisted linen, and their bases of bronze.

• Exodus 27:19

  All the utensils of the dwelling for all its service, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the courtyard, shall be of bronze.

• Exodus 30:18

  “You shall make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing, and put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

• Exodus 31:4

  to devise designs, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,

• Exodus 35:5

  ‘Take from among you a contribution for YHWH. Whoever is generous of heart, let him bring it, the contribution of YHWH: gold, and silver, and bronze;

• 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 35:24

  Everyone who set apart a contribution of silver and bronze brought the contribution of YHWH; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

• Exodus 35:32

  and to devise designs, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,

• Exodus 36:18

  And he made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent to be one.

• Exodus 36:38

  and its five pillars and their hooks; and he overlaid their tops and their rods with gold; and their five bases were of bronze.

• Exodus 38:2

  And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it; and he overlaid it with bronze.

• Exodus 38:3

  And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots and the shovels and the bowls, the forks and the firepans; all its utensils he made of bronze.

• 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 38:6

  And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

• Exodus 38:8

  And he made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Exodus 38:10

  their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods were of silver.

• Exodus 38:11

  And for the north side, a hundred cubits; their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods were of silver.

• Exodus 38:17

  And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their rods of silver, and the overlaying of their tops of silver, and they were joined with rods of silver, all the pillars of the courtyard.

• Exodus 38:19

  And their pillars were four and their bases four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their rods of silver.

• Exodus 38:20

  And all the pegs for the dwelling and for the courtyard all around were of bronze.

• Exodus 38:29

  And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and two thousand and four hundred shekels.

• 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;

• Leviticus 6:28

  And the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.

• Numbers 16:39

  So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that those who were burned had presented, and they hammered them into a covering for the altar,

• Numbers 21:9

  So Moses made a serpent of bronze and set it on the pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look to the serpent of bronze and live.

• Numbers 31:22

  Only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

• Deuteronomy 8:9

  a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, you will not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and from whose hills you will dig out copper.

And 100 more times.