nechusha · bronze, copper

What it means

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

Bronze or copper.

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 to make weapons, tools and ornaments.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bronze ×9
• copper ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Micah×1

• Leviticus 26:19

  And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your land like bronze.

• 2 Samuel 22:35

  He trains my hands for war, and my arms bend a bow of bronze.

• Job 20:24

  He will flee from the weapon of iron; the bow of bronze will pierce him.

• Job 28:2

  Iron is taken from the dust, and from stone copper is smelted.

• Job 40:18

  Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like a bar of iron.

• Job 41:27

  It counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

• Psalms 18:34

  He trains my hands for war, and my arms bend a bow of bronze.

• Isaiah 45:2

  “I will go before you and make straight the twisted places; doors of bronze I will break, and bars of iron I will cut through;

• Isaiah 48:4

  Because I knew that you are hard, and your neck is a sinew of iron, and your forehead bronze,

• Micah 4:13

  “Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for your horn I will make iron, and your hoofs I will make bronze, and you will crush many peoples; and you will devote completely to YHWH their gain, and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.”