נְחוּשָׁהnᵉchûwshâh
copper, bronze, (only in poetry; compare I.
Pronunciation: nekh-oo-shaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5154
Meanings
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.
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).