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Lexicon :: Strong's H5178 - nᵊḥšeṯ

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נְחשֶׁת
Transliteration
nᵊḥšeṯ
Pronunciation
nekh-o'-sheth
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1349a,1350a

Strong’s Definitions

נְחֹשֶׁת nᵉchôsheth, nekh-o'-sheth; for H5154; copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver):—brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 141x

The KJV translates Strong's H5178 in the following manner: brass (103x), brasen (28x), fetters (4x), chain (3x), copper (1x), filthiness (1x), steel (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 141x
The KJV translates Strong's H5178 in the following manner: brass (103x), brasen (28x), fetters (4x), chain (3x), copper (1x), filthiness (1x), steel (1x).

  1. copper, bronze

    1. copper (ore), bronze (as copper alloy)

    2. fetters (of copper or bronze)

    3. copper (as value)

  2. lust, harlotry

    1. meaning dubious

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נְחֹשֶׁת nᵉchôsheth, nekh-o'-sheth; for H5154; copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver):—brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.
STRONGS H5178: Abbreviations
I. נְח֫שֶׁת 137 noun masculine 1 Kings 7:45 (compare AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 108; feminine 1 Chronicles 18:8) copper, bronze (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician נחשת; Palmyrene נחשא Lzb322; Syriac bdb063806, Targum נְחָשָׁא, Arabic bdb063807, Ethiopic bdb063808 (so also Old Ethiopic DHMEpigr. Denkm. aus Abess.(1894), 52); WMMAs. u. Eur. 127 cites Egyptian teḥ(ḥ)ost, copper (= *tenḥost), as loan-word from נְחשֶׁת + feminine article); — נ׳ absolute Genesis 4:22 +; construct Exodus 38:29; suffix נְחֻשְׁתִּי Lamentations 3:7, נְחֻשְׁתֵךְ Ezekiel 16:36, נְחֻשְׁתָּהּ Ezekiel 24:11, נְחֻשְׁתָּם 2 Kings 25:13 + 2 times; dual נְחֻשְׁתַּ֫יִם Judges 16:21 + 6 times; —
1. copper, as ore Deuteronomy 8:9, compare Zechariah 6:8; worked by artificer Genesis 4:22 (J) 1 Kings 7:14 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 24:12; material — doubtless hardened with alloy, probably tin, making bronze, compare NowArchaeology i. 243 BenzArchaeology 214 — of armour 1 Samuel 17:5, 6; 1 Kings 14:27, utensils 2 Kings 25:14 = Jeremiah 52:18; Leviticus 6:21; Numbers 17:4 + very often, altar 2 Kings 16:14, 15; Exodus 38:30; Exodus 39:39, etc., and other objects Numbers 21:9 (twice in verse) (JE), 2 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 4:13; 1 Kings 7:15ff. +, especially in description of tabernacle and temple; cast 1 Kings 7:14; polished מְמֹרָט 1 Kings 7:45, מָרוּק 2 Chronicles 4:16 (compare Leviticus 6:21); and shining מֻצְהָב Ezra 8:27. On קָלָל נ׳ Ezekiel 1:7; Daniel 10:6 see קלל; נ׳ as spoil of war 2 Samuel 8:8; 2 Kings 25:13 = Jeremiah 52:17, 20 etc.
2. fetters of copper or bronze, usually dual Judges 16:21; 2 Samuel 3:34; 2 Kings 25:7 = Jeremiah 39:7; Jeremiah 52:11; 2 Chronicles 36:6, also 2 Chronicles 33:11; singular only Lamentations 3:7 (figurative of oppression).
3. as less in value than gold but more than wood Isaiah 60:17 (twice in verse); figurative of worthless people Jeremiah 6:28 (+ בַּרְזֶל), id. (as dross of silver) Ezekiel 22:18 (+ בְּדִיל, בַּרְזֶל, עוֺפֶרֶת). — On Ezekiel 16:36 see IV. נחשׁ.
4. figurative of pitiless sky Deuteronomy 28:23.

II. [נְח֫שֶׁת] noun [feminine] suffix נְחֻשְׁתֵּךְ Ezekiel 16:36 where context (|| עֶרְוָה) favours meaning lust, harlotry, or specific sens. obscoen. (Co [citing Ki Ra] Berthol, see also Da); text perhaps corrupt (compare NöZMG xl (1886). 730); Sm proposes תַּזְנוּתַיִךְ, so apparently ToyHpt; Or בָּשְׁתֵּךְ.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:22; 4:22

Exodus

38:29; 38:30; 39:39

Leviticus

6:21; 6:21

Numbers

17:4; 21:9

Deuteronomy

8:9; 28:23

Judges

16:21; 16:21

1 Samuel

17:5; 17:6

2 Samuel

3:34; 8:8

1 Kings

4:13; 7:14; 7:14; 7:15; 7:45; 7:45; 14:27

2 Kings

16:14; 16:15; 18:4; 25:7; 25:13; 25:13; 25:14

1 Chronicles

18:8

2 Chronicles

4:16; 24:12; 33:11; 36:6

Ezra

8:27

Isaiah

60:17

Jeremiah

6:28; 39:7; 52:11; 52:17; 52:18; 52:20

Lamentations

3:7; 3:7

Ezekiel

1:7; 16:36; 16:36; 16:36; 22:18; 24:11

Daniel

10:6

Zechariah

6:8

H5178

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5178 matches the Hebrew נְחשֶׁת (nᵊḥšeṯ),
which occurs 140 times in 119 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 4:22–2Sa 3:34)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:22 - And Sella [fn]also bore Thobel; he was a smith, a manufacturer both of brass and iron; and the sister of Thobel was Noëma.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:3 - And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold and silver and brass,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:11 - And thou shalt make fifty brazen rings; and thou shalt join the rings by the loops, and thou shalt join the skins, and they shall be one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:37 - And thou shalt make for the veil five posts, and thou shalt gild them with gold; and their chapiters shall be gold; and thou shalt cast for them five brazen sockets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:2 - And thou shalt make the horns on the four corners; the horns shall be of the [fn]same piece, and thou shalt overlay them with brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:3 - And thou shalt make a rim for the altar; and its covering and its cups, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pan, and all its vessels shalt thou make of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:4 - And thou shalt make for it a brazen grate with net-work; and thou shalt make for the grate four brazen rings under the four sides.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:6 - And thou shalt make for the altar staves of incorruptible wood, and thou shalt overlay them with brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:10 - And their pillars twenty, and twenty brazen sockets [fn]for them, and their rings and their clasps of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11 - Thus shall there be to the side toward the north curtains of a hundred cubits in length; and their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty of brass, and the rings and the clasps of the pillars, and their sockets overlaid with silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:17 - All the pillars of the court round about overlaid with silver, and their chapiters silver and their brass sockets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:18 - And the length of the court shall be a hundred cubits on each side, and the breadth fifty on each side, and the height five cubits of fine linen spun, and their sockets of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19 - And all the furniture and all the instruments and the pins of the court shall be of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18 - Make a brazen laver, and a brazen base for it, [fn]for washing; and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of witness and the altar, and thou shalt pour forth water into it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:4 - and to frame works, to labour in gold, and silver, and brass, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:5 - Take of yourselves an offering for the Lord: every one that engages in his heart [fn]shall bring the first-fruits to the Lord; gold, silver, brass,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:16 - and the altar and all its furniture;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:24 - And every one that offered an offering [fn]brought silver and brass, the offerings to the Lord; and they with whom was found incorruptible wood; and they brought offerings for all the works of the preparation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:32 - to labour [fn]skilfully in all works of cunning workmanship, to form the gold and the silver and the brass,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:38 - (LXX 37:6) and their posts five, and the rings; and they gilded their chapiters and their clasps with gold, and they had five sockets of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:3 - (LXX 38:23) He made all the vessels of the altar and its [fn]grate, and its base, and its bowls, and the brazen flesh-hooks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:4 - (LXX 38:24) He made an appendage for the altar of network under the grate, beneath it as far as the middle of it; and he fastened to it four brazen rings on the four parts of the appendage of the altar, wide enough for the bars, so as to bear the altar with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:8 - (LXX 38:26) He made the brazen laver, and the brazen base of it of the mirrors of the women that fasted, who fasted by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, in the day in which he set it up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:10 - (LXX 37:8) and their posts twenty, and their sockets twenty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:11 - (LXX 37:9) and on the north side a hundred every way, and on the south side a hundred every way, and their posts twenty and their sockets twenty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:17 - (LXX 37:15) And the sockets of their pillars of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the court overlaid with silver:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:19 - (LXX 37:17) and their pillars four, and their sockets four of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:20 - (LXX 38:21) He made the pins of the tabernacle and the pins of the court of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29 - (LXX 39:6) And the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he formed into hooks for the pillars, and he gilt their chapiters and adorned them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:30 - (LXX 39:7) And the brass of the offering was [fn]seventy talents, and [fn]a thousand five hundred shekels;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:28 - (LXX 6:21) And the earthen vessel, in whichsoever it shall have been sodden, shall be broken; and if it shall have been sodden in a brazen vessel, he shall scour it and wash it with water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:39 - (LXX 17:4) And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest took the brazen censers, which the men who had been burnt brought near, and they put them as a covering on the altar:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:9 - And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a signal-staff: and it came to pass that whenever a serpent bit a man, and he looked on the brazen serpent, he lived.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:22 - Beside the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and lead, and tin,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:9 - a land on which thou shalt not eat thy bread with poverty, and thou shalt not want any thing upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt dig brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:23 - And thou shalt have over thine head a sky of brass, and the earth under thee shall be iron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:25 - His sandal shall be iron and brass; as thy days, so shall be thy strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:19 - And all the silver, or gold, or brass, or iron, shall be holy to the Lord; it shall be carried into the treasury of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24 - And the city was burnt with fire with all things that were in it; only of the silver, and gold, and brass, and iron, they gave to be brought into the treasury of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:8 - And they departed with much wealth to their houses, and they divided the spoil of their enemies with their brethren; very much cattle, and silver, and gold, and iron, and much raiment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - And the Philistines took him, and [fn]put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground in the prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:5 - And he had a helmet upon his head, and he wore a breastplate of chain armour; and the weight of his breastplate was five thousand shekels of brass and iron.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:6 - And greaves of brass were upon his legs, and a brazen target was between his shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:38 - And Saul clothed David with a military coat, and put his brazen helmet on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34 - Thy hands were not bound, and thy feet were not put in fetters: one brought thee not near as Nabal; thou didst fall before children of iniquity.

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