I. נְח֫שֶׁת137 noun masculine[1Kgs 7:45] (compare AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 108; feminine[1Chr 18:8]) copper, bronze (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician נחשת; Palmyrene נחשא Lzb322; Syriac , ᵑ7 נְחָשָׁא, Arabic , Ethiopic (so also Old Ethiopic DHMEpigr.Denkm.aus Abess.(1894),52); WMMAs.u.Eur.127 cites Egyptian teµ(µ)ost, copper (= *tenµost), as loan-word from נְחשֶׁת + feminine article); — ׳נ absolute [Gen 4:22] +; construct [Exod 38:29] suffix נְחֻשְׁתִּי [Lam 3:7], נְחֻשְׁתֵךְ [Ezek 16:36], נְחֻשְׁתָּהּ [Ezek 24:11], נְחֻשְׁתָּם [2Kgs 25:13] + 2 t.; dual נְחֻשְׁתַּ֫יִם [Judg 16:21] + 6 t.; —
1. copper, as ore [Deut 8:9], compare [Zech 6:8] worked by artificer [Gen 4:22] (J) [1Kgs 7:14] (twice in verse); [2Chr 24:12] material — doubtless hardened with alloy, probably tin, making bronze, compare NowArchaeology i. 243 BenzArchaeology 214 — of armour [1Sam 17:5]; [1Sam 17:6]; [1Kgs 14:27], utensils [2Kgs 25:14] = [Jer 52:18]; [Lev 6:21]; [Num 17:4] + very often, altar [2Kgs 16:14]; [2Kgs 16:15]; [Exod 38:30]; [Exod 39:39], etc., and other objects [Num 21:9] (twice in verse) (JE), [2Kgs 18:4]; [1Kgs 4:13]; [1Kgs 7:15]ff. +, especially in description of tabernacle and temple; cast [1Kgs 7:14] polished מְמֹרָט v[1Kgs 7:45], מָרוּק [2Chr 4:16] (compare [Lev 6:21]); and shining מֻצְהָב [Ezra 8:27]. On קָלָל ׳נ [Ezek 1:7]; [Dan 10:6] see קלל; ׳נ as spoil of war [2Sam 8:8]; [2Kgs 25:13] = [Jer 52:17]; [Jer 52:20] etc.
2. fetters of copper or bronze, usually dual [Judg 16:21]; [2Sam 3:34]; [2Kgs 25:7] = [Jer 39:7]; [Jer 52:11]; [2Chr 36:6], also [2Chr 33:11] singular only [Lam 3:7] (figurative of oppression).
3. as less in value than gold but more than wood [Isa 60:17] (twice in verse); figurative of worthless people [Jer 6:28] (+ בַּרְזֶל), id. (as dross of silver) [Ezek 22:18] (+ בְּדִיל, בַּרְזֶל, עוֺפֶרֶת). — On [Ezek 16:36] see IV. נחשׁ.
4. figurative of pitiless sky [Deut 28:23].
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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