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H5180 נְחֻשְׁתָּן (Nᵉchushtân) nekh-oosh-tawn'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from 5178; something made of copper, i.e. the copper serpent of the Desert

KJV Usage: Nehushtan

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

נְחֻשְׁתָּן (ne.chush.tan) — Nehushtan.

§ Nehushtan = "a thing of brass" name by which the brazen serpent made by Moses in the wilderness was worshipped in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah before he destroyed it

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

name · נחשׁ

Names of Deities

serpent idol = an image of a serpent, ◄ made out of bronze by Moses (see NUM 21:9), ► which was later worshipped as an idol and therefore destroyed by king Hezekiah

2KI 18:4

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

נְחֻשְׁתָּן n.pr. given to bronze serpent 2 K 18:4 prob. = bronze-god ref

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