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# נָחוּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5153

**of bronze** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

of bronze [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5153/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָחוּשׁ: adj. of bronze [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5153/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. of bronze;—אִם־בְּשָׂרִי נ׳ Jb 6:12 or is my flesh of bronze? fig. for strong, enduring (‖ אֲבָנִים; cf. 40:18).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bronze (1).

## In the verses

[Job 6:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.12/#tree)

אִם־כֹּ֣חַ אֲבָנִ֣ים כֹּחִ֑י אִֽם־בְּשָׂרִ֥י נָחֽוּשׁ׃

*Word for word:* (if)? \[the\].strength of.stones strength \[is\].my or? flesh \[is\].my bronze

*JPS 1917:* Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5153.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5153/): 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).