--- title: נְחֹשֶׁת — copper · The Tanakh dictionary description: נְחֹשֶׁת (5178), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 139 times: copper. BDB 1906: n.m. copper, bronze. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5178.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [נ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1504-2.md)‎ / נְחֹשֶׁת‎ # נְחֹשֶׁת «נְחֹשֶׁת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **copper** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 139 times · **Key:** 5178 · **BDB:** נְחֹ֫שֶׁת ### Glosses bronze (76); of.bronze (34); \[were\].bronze (7) ### Meaning (OSHB) copper [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5178/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. copper, bronze [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5178/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 K 7:45 (cf. AlbrechtZAW xvi (1896), 108; f. 1 Ch 18:8) copper, bronze (NH = BH; Ph. נחשׁת; Palm. נחשא Lzb 322; Syriac ܢܚܳܫܳܐ 𝔗 נְחָשָׁא, Arabic نُحَاسٌ Ethiopic ናሕስ (so also OEth. DHMEpigr. Denkm. aus Abess. (1894), 52); WMMAs. u. Eur. 127 cites Egyptian teḥost, copper (= tenḥost), as loan-wd. from נְחשֶׁת + fem. art.);—נ׳ abs. Gn 4:22 +; cstr. Ex 38:29; sf. נְחָשְׁתִּי La 3:7, נְחֻשְׁתֵּךְ Ez 16:36, נְחֻשְׁתָּהּ 24:11, נְחֻשְׁתָּם 2 K 25:13 + 2 times; du. נְחֻשְׁתַּ֫יִם Ju 16:21 + 6 times;— copper, as ore Dt 8:9, cf. Zc 6:8; worked by artificer Gn 4:22 (J) 1 K 7:14(×2) 2 Ch 24:12; material—doubtless hardened with alloy, prob. tin, making bronze, cf. NowArch. i. 243 BenzArch. 214—of armour 1 S 17:5, 6 1 K 14:27, utensils 2 K 25:14 = Je 52:18, Lv 6:21 Nu 17:4 + very often, altar 2 K 16:14, 15 Ex 38:30; 39:39, etc., and other objects Nu 21:9(×2) (JE), 2 K 18:4 1 K 4:13; 7:15 ff. +, especially in description of tabernacle and temple; cast 1 K 7:14; polished מְמֹרָט v 45, מָרוּק 2 Ch 4:16 (cf. Lv 6:21); and shining מֻצְהָב Ezr 8:27. On נ׳ קָלָל Ez 1:7 Dn 10:6 v. קלל; נ׳ as spoil of war 2 S 8:8 2 K 25:13 = Je 52:17, 20 etc. fetters of copper or bronze, usually du. Ju 16:21 2 S 3:34 2 K 25:7 = Je 39:7; 52:11 2 Ch 36:6, also 33:11; sg. only la 3:9 (fig. of oppression). as less in value than gold but more than wood Is 60:17(×2) fig. of worthless people Je 6:28 (+ בַּרְזֶל), id. (as dross of silver) Ez 22:18 (+ בְּדִיל, בַּרְזֶל, עוֹפֶרֶה).—On Ez 16:36 v. IV. נחשׁ. fig. of pitiless sky Dt 28:23. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 43 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «נְחֹשֶׁת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5178/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Psalms 107:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.16/) כִּֽי־שִׁ֭בַּר דַּלְת֣וֹת נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וּבְרִיחֵ֖י בַרְזֶ֣ל גִּדֵּֽעַ׃ *Word for word:* (dm) he.breaks.down gates of.bronze and bars of.iron he.cuts.down *JPS 1917:* For He hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. [Jeremiah 15:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.12/) הֲיָרֹ֨עַ בַּרְזֶ֧ל ׀ בַּרְזֶ֛ל מִצָּפ֖וֹן וּנְחֹֽשֶׁת׃ *Word for word:* will it.break? iron iron from.\[the\] north and bronze *JPS 1917:* Can iron break iron from the north and brass? - ← previous: [נַחְשׁוֹן](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5177.md) - next →: [נְחֹשֶׁת](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d7_5b9_5e9_5b6_5c1_5ea.md) - ↑ back to [נ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1504-2.md)