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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; 7:15; 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 - Now Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who heated metal and shaped all kinds of tools made of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:3 - This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:11 - You are to make fifty bronze clasps and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it is a unit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:37 - You are to make for the hanging five posts of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and their hooks will be gold, and you are to cast five bronze bases for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:2 - You are to make its four horns on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, and you are to overlay it with bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:3 - You are to make its pots for the ashes, its shovels, its tossing bowls, its meat hooks, and its fire pans - you are to make all its utensils of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:4 - You are to make a grating for it, a network of bronze, and you are to make on the network four bronze rings on its four corners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:6 - You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:10 - with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11 - Likewise for its length on the north side, there are to be hangings for one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:17 - All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands; their hooks are to be silver, and their bases bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:18 - The length of the courtyard is to be one hundred fifty feet and the width seventy-five feet, and the height of the fine twisted linen hangings is to be seven and a half feet, with their bronze bases.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19 - All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service, all its tent pegs, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18 - "You are also to make a large bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. You are to put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:4 - to make artistic designs for work with gold, with silver, and with bronze,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:5 - 'Take an offering for the LORD. Let everyone who has a willing heart bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, bronze,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:16 - the altar for the burnt offering with its bronze grating that is on it, its poles, and all its utensils; the large basin and its pedestal;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:24 - Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as an offering to the LORD, and everyone who had acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:32 - to design artistic designs, to work in gold, in silver, and in bronze,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:18 - He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be a unit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:38 - and its five posts and their hooks. He overlaid their tops and their bands with gold, but their five bases were bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:2 - He made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:3 - He made all the utensils of the altar - the pots, the shovels, the tossing bowls, the meat hooks, and the fire pans - he made all its utensils of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:4 - He made a grating for the altar, a network of bronze under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:5 - He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating, to provide places for the poles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:6 - He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:8 - He made the large basin of bronze and its pedestal of bronze from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:10 - with their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:11 - For the north side the hangings were one hundred fifty feet, with their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:17 - The bases for the posts were bronze. The hooks of the posts and their bands were silver, their tops were overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the courtyard had silver bands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:19 - with four posts and their four bronze bases. Their hooks and their bands were silver, and their tops were overlaid with silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:20 - All the tent pegs of the tabernacle and of the courtyard all around were bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29 - The bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:30 - With it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils of the altar,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:39

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:39 - the bronze altar and its bronze grating, its poles, and all its utensils; the large basin with its pedestal;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:28 - Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel must be rubbed out and rinsed in water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:39 - So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:9 - So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:22 - 'Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:9 - a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:23 - The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:25 - The bars of your gates will be made of iron and bronze, and may you have lifelong strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:19 - All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the LORD. They must go into the LORD's treasury."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24 - But they burned the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the LORD's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:8 - saying, "Take home great wealth, a lot of cattle, silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a lot of clothing. Divide up the goods captured from your enemies with your brothers."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:5 - He had a bronze helmet on his head and was wearing scale body armor. The weight of his bronze body armor was five thousand shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:6 - He had bronze shin guards on his legs, and a bronze javelin was slung over his shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:38 - Then Saul clothed David with his own fighting attire and put a bronze helmet on his head. He also put body armor on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34 - Your hands were not bound, and your feet were not put into irons. You fell the way one falls before criminals." All the people wept over him again.

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