eRhema Explore
Word

נָחוּשׁ

nâchûwsh · H5153 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

See all 1 in Search

Meanings

  1. bronze

    Made out of bronze

    Examples

    Job 6:12 “Is my strength the strength of stones, Or is my flesh bronze?

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 1 entry
Metals001002005008
נָחוּשׁ, "of brass," its sole occurrence at Job 6:12 rhetorically asking whether Job's flesh is "bronze," tying the word to this metal as a byword for hardness and unyielding strength.
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

נָחוּשׁnâchûwsh · H5153נְחֹשֶׁת nᵉchôsheth · H5178 · copper, bronze · 140×נְחוּשָׁה nᵉchûwshâh · H5154 · bronze · 10×נְחָשׁ nᵉchâsh · H5174 · brass · 9×נְחֻשְׁתָּן Nᵉchushtân · H5180 · serpent idol · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5153. nachush נָחוּשׁ adjective of bronze; — נ ׳אִםבְּֿשָׂרִי Job 6:12 or is my flesh of…
H5153. nachush
נָחוּשׁ adjective of bronze; — נ ׳אִםבְּֿשָׂרִי Job 6:12 or is my flesh of bronze ? figurative for strong, enduring (|| אֲבָנִים; compare Job 40:18 ).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Metals1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.