Bronze
נְחֹ֫שֶׁתStrong’s H5178nechoshet (ne-cho-shet)
Appears in 119 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nechoshet is the Hebrew word usually translated “bronze”, “bronze fetters” and “copper”. It appears in 119 verses of the Old Testament.
“His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.”
Meaning
- Copper, bronzecopper (ore), bronze (as copper alloy) · fetters (of copper or bronze) · copper (as value)
- Lust, harlotry
How it's translated
- bronze 97
- and bronze 9
- with bronze fetters 6
- the bronze 5
- and in bronze 3
- copper 2
- bronze their 2
- and bronze of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 34
- 2 Chronicles 14
- 1 Kings 11
- Jeremiah 10
- 2 Kings 9
- 1 Chronicles 8
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 6:1In contextAnd I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
- Genesis 4:22And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
- Exodus 25:3And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
- Exodus 26:11And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
- Exodus 26:37And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
- Exodus 27:2And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
All 119 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נְחֹ֫שֶׁת nechoshet · bronze
1) copper, bronze 1a) copper (ore), bronze (as copper alloy) 1b) fetters (of copper or bronze) 1c) copper (as value)
נְחֹ֫שֶׁת nechoshet · lust
lust, harlotry
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.