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# נְחוּשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5154

**copper** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

copper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5154/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְחוּשָׁה: n.f. copper, bronze [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5154/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** and (Lv 26:19 Jb 40:18) נְחֻשָׁה n.f. copper, bronze (only poet.; cf. i. נְחשֶׁת);—נ׳ always abs.;— copper, produced from ore by melting Jb 28:2. copper, doubtless hardened with alloy, = bronze, as material of bow 2 S 22:35 = ψ 18:35, Jb 20:24; gates Is 45:2; fig. of strength Jb 40:18 (bones of hippopotamus), cf. 41:19, Mi 4:13 (hoofs of Zion); of obstinate brow Is 48:4 (‖ גִּיד בַּרְזֶל עָרְפֶּ֑ךָ); unproductive earth Lv 26:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of bronze (5); bronze (3); \[was\] bronze (1).

## In the verses

[Job 20:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.24/#tree)

יִ֭בְרַח מִנֵּ֣שֶׁק בַּרְזֶ֑ל תַּ֝חְלְפֵ֗הוּ קֶ֣שֶׁת נְחוּשָֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* he.will.flee from a.weapon of.iron it will.pierce.him a.bow of.bronze

*JPS 1917:* If he flee from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.

[Job 28:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.2/#tree)

בַּ֭רְזֶל מֵעָפָ֣ר יֻקָּ֑ח וְ֝אֶ֗בֶן יָצ֥וּק נְחוּשָֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* iron from.\[the\] dust it.is.taken and stone someone.pours.out copper

*JPS 1917:* Iron is taken out of the dust, and brass is molten out of the stone.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5154.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5154/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).