נְחֻשְׁתָּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5180

Nehushtan — 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

Nehushtan tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְחֻשְׁתָּן: n.pr. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr. given to bronze serpent 2 K 18:4 prob. = bronze-god (so Thes, v. also BaudRel. i. 288; cf. נְחַשׁ נְחשֶׁת v 4 Nu 21:9(×2));—chief arg. ag. this are vocalization of 𝔊 Νεσθαλει, A 𝔊L Νε(ε)σθαν, and comparat. unimportance of material of wh. image was made; others think of נָחָשׁ serpent (Nö ZMG xiii (1888), 482 תן + נחשׁ, Kload loc. יתן + נחשׁ); LagBN 188, 205 thinks loan-wd.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Nehushtan (1).

In the verses

2 Kings 18:4 · tree →

ה֣וּא ׀ הֵסִ֣יר אֶת־הַבָּמ֗וֹת וְשִׁבַּר֙ אֶת־הַמַּצֵּבֹ֔ת וְכָרַ֖ת אֶת־הָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֑ה וְכִתַּת֩ נְחַ֨שׁ הַנְּחֹ֜שֶׁת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֣ה מֹשֶׁ֗ה כִּ֣י עַד־הַיָּמִ֤ים הָהֵ֙מָּה֙ הָי֤וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מְקַטְּרִ֣ים ל֔וֹ וַיִּקְרָא־ל֖וֹ נְחֻשְׁתָּֽן׃

Word for word: he he.removed (et) the.high places and he.broke (et) the.sacred pillars and he.cut.down (et) the.Asherah pole and he.crushed.to.pieces the.snake of.(the) bronze which he.had.made Moses (dm) until the days (the) those they.were the.people of.Israel making.smoke to it and someone.had.called (to) it Nehushtan

JPS 1917: He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah; and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did offer to it; and it was called Nehushtan.

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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).

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