Original Word: נְחֻשְׁתָּן
Part of Speech: Noun
Transliteration: Nechushtan
Pronunciation: nekh-oosh-tawn'
Phonetic Spelling: (nekh-oosh-tawn')
Definition: Nechushtan
Meaning: something made of copper, the copper serpent of the Desert

Word Origin
from the same as nechosheth
Definition
the name of Moses' bronze serpent
NASB Translation
Nehushtan (1).

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}]).

Nehushtan

From nchosheth; something made of copper, i.e. The copper serpent of the Desert -- Nehushtan.

see HEBREW nchosheth

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