Strong's Hebrew · H5178
H5178 nᵉchôsheth
נְחֹשֶׁת
nekh-o'-sheth
bronze
Looking for Greek G5178 tympanízō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H5178. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
nᵉchôsheth appears 140 times in Scripture, including Genesis 4:22 and Exodus 25:3. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)
In the King James Version
brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.
Derivation
for H5154 (נְחוּשָׁה);
Appears 140 times in Scripture
“And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.”
“the bronze altar with its bronze grating, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;”
“This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, and bronze;”
“Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.”
“Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold, use hooks of gold, and cast five bronze bases for them.”
“Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.”
“Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.”
“Make fifty bronze clasps and put them through the loops to join the tent together as a unit.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
