נְחָשׁ
nᵉchâsh · H5174 · Aramaic · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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bronze
A relatively hard yellowish-brown alloy consisting of copper and up to one-third tin, used by a craftsman to create artifacts, associated with strength and security but also with stubbornness, and considered valuable but less than silver and gold
ExamplesDaniel 2:32 “The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
Daniel 2:35 “Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed to pieces all at the same time, and they were like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the entire earth.
Daniel 2:39 “And after you another kingdom will arise inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.
How it’s used In 3 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
- דְּקַקbreak to pieces 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דְּקַקbreak to pieces 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 3 groups
- טְפַרnail 1
- יַרְכָאthigh 1
- מְעָהbelly 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 3 words
- χαλκός chalkós · G5475 · bronze, brass, copper
- Greek χαλκός denotes the same metal substance (copper/bronze/brass) as Aramaic נְחָשׁ, serving as the standard Septuagintal rendering for this metallurgical term across contexts where the metal itself or objects fashioned from it are referenced.
- נְחוּשָׁה nᵉchûwshâh · H5154 · bronze
- Aramaic נְחָשׁ and Hebrew נְחוּשָׁה are cognate forms denoting the same metal (brass/bronze/copper), distinguished only by language register (Aramaic vs. Hebrew) within the biblical corpus.
- נְחֹשֶׁת nᵉchôsheth · H5178 · copper, bronze
- נְחָשׁ (nᵉchâsh, H5174) (Aramaic נְחָשׁ) is the direct Aramaic cognate of נְחֹשֶׁת (nᵉchôsheth, H5178) (Hebrew נְחֹשֶׁת), both denoting brass/bronze/copper from the shared Semitic root נחש.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Metals001002005008
- Daniel 2:32 describes the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, “the head of that statue was made of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze.”
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5174. nechash נְחָשׁ noun masculine copper, bronze (ᵑ7 Syriac; Biblical Hebrew נְחוּשָׁה…
נְחָשׁ noun masculine copper, bronze (ᵑ7 Syriac; Biblical Hebrew נְחוּשָׁה נְחשֶׁת,, √ III. נחשׁ); — as material: absolute ׳נ Dan 2:32; Dan 4:12; Dan 4:20; Dan 7:19; emphatic נְחָשָׁא Dan 2:35, Dan 2:39, Dan 2:45; Dan 5:4, Dan 5:23.
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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