נְחֻשְׁתָּן
Nᵉchushtân · H5180 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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serpent idol
An image of a serpent, made out of bronze by Moses (see Numbers 21:9), which was later worshipped as an idol and therefore destroyed by king Hezekiah
Examples2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places and smashed the memorial stones to pieces, and cut down the Asherah. He also crushed to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel had been burning incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָרָאto call, to cry out 1
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Deities003001004
- נְחֻשְׁתָּן, "Nehushtan," names the bronze serpent Moses made in the wilderness, which King Hezekiah destroyed after it had become an object of idolatrous worship (2 Kings 18:4), functioning as the name given to this idolized cultic object.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5180. Nechushtan נְחֻשְׁתָּן proper name, feminine given to bronze serpent 2Ki 18:4…
נְחֻשְׁתָּן proper name, feminine given to bronze serpent 2Ki 18:4 probably = bronze-god (so Thes, see also BauSemitic Rel. i. 288; compare נְחשֶׁת נְחַשׁ 2Ki 18:4; Num 21:9 (twice in verse) ); — chief arg. ag. this are vocalization of ᵐ5 Νεσθαλει, A ᵐ5L Νε(ε)σθαν, and comparative unimportance of material of which image was made; others think of נָחָשׁ serpent (NöZMG xlii (1888), 482 תן + נחשׁ, Kloon the passage יתן + נחשׁ); LagBN 188, 205 thinks loan-word
IV. נחשׁ (possibly √ of following, si vera lectio; but precise meaning uncertain; GeiUrschrift 392 compare Arabic [= goad, prick; a certain piece of perforated wood (Frey)], Late Hebrew נְחשֶׁת [bottom of vessel, LevyNHWB iii. 374]).
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.
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