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Lexicon :: Strong's H5178 - nᵊḥšeṯ

Aa
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 Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:3 - And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:11 - Then make fifty brass hooks and put the hooks into the twists, joining the tent together to make it one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:37 - And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:2 - Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:3 - And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:4 - And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:6 - And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:10 - Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11 - And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:17 - All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:18 - The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19 - All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18 - You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:4 - To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:5 - Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:16 - The altar of burned offerings, with its network of brass, its rods, and all its vessels, the washing-vessel and its base;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:24 - Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:32 - As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:18 - And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:38 - And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:2 - And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:3 - And brass was used for all the vessels of the altar, the baskets and the spades, the basins and the meat-hooks and the fire-trays; all the vessels he made of brass

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:4 - And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:5 - And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:6 - The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:8 - And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:10 - Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:11 - And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:17 - And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:19 - There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:20 - All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29 - The brass which was given was seventy talents, two thousand four hundred shekels;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:30 - From it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent of meeting and the brass altar and the network for it and all the vessels for the altar,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:39

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:39 - And the brass altar, with its network of brass, and its rods and all its vessels, and the washing-vessel and its base;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:28 - But the vessel of earth in which the flesh was cooked is to be broken; or if a brass vessel was used, it is to be rubbed clean and washed out with water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:39 - So Eleazar the priest took the brass vessels which had been offered by those who were burned up, and they were hammered out to make a cover for the altar:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:9 - So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:9 - Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:23 - And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:25 - Your shoes will be iron and brass; and as your days, so may your work be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:19 - But all the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron are holy to the Lord: they are to come into the store-house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24 - Then, after burning up the town and everything in it, they put the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron into the store-house of the Lord's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:8 - And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:5 - And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:6 - His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:38 - Then Saul gave David his clothing of war, and put a head-dress of brass on his head and had him clothed with a coat of metal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34 - Your hands were free, your feet were not chained: like the downfall of a man before evil men, so was your fall. And the weeping of the people over him went on again.

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