nechash · bronze

What it means

nechash (נְחָשׁ) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “bronze”.

Copper (Aramaic). The same word as the Hebrew "nechoshet".

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. A hard reddish metal used for weapons and tools, said in Aramaic.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Daniel 2:32

  That image — its head was of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,

• Daniel 2:35

  Then were crushed all together the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and they became like the chaff of the threshing floors of summer; and the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled all the earth.

• Daniel 2:39

  And after you will arise another kingdom lower than you, and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

• Daniel 2:45

  Inasmuch as you saw that from the mountain a stone was cut out, not by hands, and it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, a great Elah has made known to the king what will be after this. And the dream is certain, and its interpretation trustworthy.”

• Daniel 4:15

  But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals be his portion in the grass of the earth.

• Daniel 4:23

  And as for what the king saw, a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals of the field be his portion, until seven times pass over him’:

• Daniel 5:4

  They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood and of stone.

• Daniel 5:23

  But against the Lord of the heavens you have lifted yourself up; and the vessels of his house they brought before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and the gods of silver and of gold, of bronze, of iron, of wood and of stone, which do not see or hear or know, you have praised; but the Elah in whose hand is your breath and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

• Daniel 7:19

  Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrifying, whose teeth were of iron and its claws of bronze, which devoured, crushed, and trampled the rest with its feet;