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hebrew #5180 - נְחֻשְׁתָּן Nechushtan (the name of Moses' bronze serpent)


Original Word:נְחֻשְׁתָּן
Transliteration: Nechushtan
Definition:the name of Moses' bronze serpent
Part of Speech:Noun
Phonetic Spelling:(nekh-oosh-tawn')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Nehushtan

From nchosheth; something made of copper, i.e. The copper serpent of the Desert -- Nehushtan.

see HEBREW nchosheth


Englishman's Concordance

Nehushtan=“a thing of brass”
1) name by which the brazen serpent made by Moses in the wilderness was worshipped in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah before he destroyed it
Part of Speech: noun proper
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5178
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1347b

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נְחֻשְׁתָּןproper name, feminine given to bronze serpent2 Kings 18:4 probably=bronze-god (so Thes, see also BauSemitic Rel. i. 288; compare נְחַשׁ נְחשֶׁת2 Kings 18:4; Numbers 21:9 (twice in verse) ); — chief arg. ag. this are vocalization of ᵐ5Νεσθαλει, A ᵐ5LΝε(ε)σθαν, and comparative unimportance of material of which image was made; others think of נָחָשׁserpent (NöZMG xlii (1888), 482תן + נחשׁ, Kloon the passageיתן + נחשׁ); LagBN 188, 205 thinks loan-word

IV. נחשׁ (possibly √ of following, si vera lectio; but precise meaning uncertain; GeiUrschrift 392 compare Arabic [=goad, prick; a certain piece of perforated wood (Frey)], Late Hebrew נְחשֶׁת [bottom of vessel, LevyNHWB iii. 374]).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5180. נְחֻשְׁתָּן (Nechushtan) — 1 Occurrence

2 Kings 18:4
HEB:וַיִּקְרָא־ ל֖וֹ נְחֻשְׁתָּֽן׃
NAS: to it; and it was called Nehushtan.
KJV: to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
INT: burned called Nehushtan

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