Lexicon Nechushtan: the name of Moses' bronze serpent Original Word: נְחֻשְׁתָּןPart of Speech: Noun Transliteration: Nechushtan Phonetic Spelling: (nekh-oosh-tawn') Short Definition: Nehushtan NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as nechoshethDefinitionthe name of Moses' bronze serpent NASB TranslationNehushtan (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs 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 ᵐ5L 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; GeiUrschrift 392 compare Arabic  [= goad, prick;  a certain piece of perforated wood (Frey)], Late Hebrew נְחשֶׁת [bottom of vessel, LevyNHWB iii. 374]).
Strong's Nehushtan From nchosheth; something made of copper, i.e. The copper serpent of the Desert -- Nehushtan. see HEBREW nchosheth |
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