Bronze
נְחוּשָׁהStrong’s H5154nechushah (ne-chu-shah)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nechushah is the Hebrew word usually translated “bronze”, “like bronze” and “copper”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:”
Meaning
- Copper, bronzecopper (made from melting copper ore) · bronze (made from copper and alloy)
How it's translated
- bronze 8
- like bronze 1
- copper 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 4
- Isaiah 2
- Leviticus 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Micah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:35He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
- Job 20:24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
- Job 28:2Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
- Job 40:18His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
- Job 41:27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
- Psalms 18:34He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Hebrew dictionary
נְחוּשָׁה nechushah · bronze
1) copper, bronze 1a) copper (made from melting copper ore) 1b) bronze (made from copper and alloy) Aramaic equivalent: ne.chash (נְחָשׁ "bronze" H5174)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “copper” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COPPER, noun
[Latin, G., supposed to be so called from Cyprus, an isle in the Mediterranean. This opinion is probable, as the Greeks called it Cyprian brass, brass of Cyprus. In this case copper was originally an adjective.]
A metal, of a pale red color, tinged with yellow. Next to gold, silver and platina, it is the most ductile and malleable of the metals, and it is more elastic than any metal, except steel, and the most sonorous of all the metals. It is found native in lamins or fibers, in a gangue almost always quartzous; it is also found crystalized, and in grains or superficial lamins on stones or iron. It is not altered by water, but is tarnished by exposure to the air, and is at last covered with a green carbonated oxyd. copper in sheets is much used for covering the bottoms of ships, for boilers and other utensils; mixed with tin and zink, it is used in enamel-painting, dyeing, etc.: mixed with tin, it forms bell-metal; with a smaller proportion, bronze; and with zink, it forms brass, pinchbeck, etc. When taken into the body ti operates as a violent emetic, and all its preparations are violent poisons.
All definitions and other forms of “copper”
COPPER, adjective
Consisting of copper
COPPER,noun
- A vessel made of copper particularly a large boiler.
COPPER, verb transitive
To cover or sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.