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Strong's #5180 - נְחֻשְׁתָּן

Transliteration
Nᵉchushtân
Phonetics
nekh-oosh-tawn'
Origin
from (H5178)
Parts of Speech
Noun
TWOT
1347b
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Nehushtan = “a thing of brass”

1) name by which the brazen serpent made by Moses in the wilderness was worshipped in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah before he destroyed it

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (1)
2 Kings 1
NAS (1)
2 Kings 1
HCS (1)
2 Kings 1
BSB (1)
2 Kings 1
ESV (1)
2 Kings 1
WEB (1)
2 Kings 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 נְחֻשְׁתָּן proper name, feminine given to bronze serpent 2 Kings 18:4 probably = bronze-god (so Thes, see also Bau Semitic Rel. i. 288; compare נְחַשׁ נְחשֶׁת 2 Kings 18:4; Numbers 21:9 (twice in verse) ); — chief arg. ag. this are vocalization of ᵐ5 Νεσθαλει, A ᵐ5 L Νε(ε)σθαν, and comparative unimportance of material of which image was made; others think of נָחָשׁ serpent (Nö ZMG xlii (1888), 482 תן + נחשׁ, Klo on the passage יתן + נחשׁ); Lag BN 188,205 thinks loan-word

IV. נחשׁ (possibly √ of following, si vera lectio; but precise meaning uncertain; Gei Urschrift 392 compare Arabic [= goad, prick; a certain piece of perforated wood (Frey)], Late Hebrew נְחשֶׁת [ bottom of vessel, Levy NHWB iii. 374]).


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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

נְחֻשְׁתָּן m. (from נְחשֶׁת and the formative syllable ־ָן), adj. the serpent of brass, made by Moses, broken up by Hezekiah, which the Israelites had made an object of worship, 2 Kings 18:4.


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List of Word Forms
נְחֻשְׁתָּֽן׃ נחשתן׃ nə·ḥuš·tān nechushTan nəḥuštān
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