נְחוּשָׁהnᵉchûwshâh

copper, bronze, (only in poetry; compare I.

Pronunciation: nekh-oo-shaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5154

Meanings

נְחשֶׁת)

1. copper (Job 28:2)

2. copper (2 Samuel 22:35; Psalms 18:35; Job 20:24)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 10 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 26:19 I will break your proud spirit by making the skies as unyielding as iron and the earth as hard as bronze.
  • 2 Samuel 22:35 He trains my hands for battle; he strengthens my arm to draw a bronze bow.
  • Job 20:24 When they try to escape an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce them.
  • Job 28:2 They know where to dig iron from the earth and how to smelt copper from rock.
  • Job 40:18 Its bones are tubes of bronze. Its limbs are bars of iron.
  • Job 41:27 Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).