נְחוּשָׁה
nᵉchûwshâh · H5154 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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bronze
A yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin, regarded as a hard and difficult to bend
ExamplesLeviticus 26:19 ‘I will also break down your pride of power; and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.
2 Samuel 22:35 “He trains my hands for battle, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
Job 20:24 “He may flee from the iron weapon, But the bronze bow will pierce him.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- צוּקto nag 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מֵצַחforehead 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- קֶשֶׁתbow 3
- דֶּלֶתdoor 1
- אָפִיקwadi 1
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.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- χάλκεος chálkeos · G5470 · made of bronze (brass or copper)
- Greek χάλκεος denotes objects made of copper/bronze (the material), directly rendering Hebrew נְחוּשָׁה in LXX contexts where the Hebrew term specifies brass/bronze composition.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Metals001002005008
- נְחוּשָׁה denotes bronze or copper, used of the metal from which the temple's great sea and its furnishings were cast (1 Kings 7:14-16) and figuratively of unyielding hardness (Isaiah 48:4), identifying it as a worked metal.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5154. nechushah נְחוּשָׁה and (Lev 26:19; Job 40:18) נְחֻשָׁה noun feminine copper,…
נְחוּשָׁה and (Lev 26:19; Job 40:18) נְחֻשָׁה noun feminine copper, bronze (only in poetry; compare I. נְחשֶׁת); — ׳נ always absolute; —
1 copper produced from ore by melting Job 28:2.
2 copper, doubtless hardened with alloy, = bronze, as material of bow 2Sa 22:35 = Psa 18:35; Job 20:24; gates Isa 45:2; figurative of strength Job 40:18 (bones of hippopotamus), compare Job 41:19, Mic 4:13 (hoofs of Zion); of obstinate brow Isa 48:4 (|| עָרְמֶּ֑ךָ בַּרְזֶל גִּיד); unproductive earth Lev 26:19.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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