Strong's Hebrew · H5178

נְחֹשֶׁת

nᵉchôsheth · nekh-o'-sheth

Definitioncopper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)
Derivationfor H5154 (נְחוּשָׁה);
KJV usagebrasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.
Occurrences140 in the KJV · 119 verses

נְחֹשֶׁת in Scripture

Genesis 4:22 And Zillah, she also bore Tubal -cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal -cain was Naamah. Exodus 25:3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, Exodus 26:11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. Exodus 26:37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood , and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them. Exodus 27:2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. Exodus 27:3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass. Exodus 27:4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof. Exodus 27:6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. Exodus 27:10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. Exodus 27:11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. Exodus 27:17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass. Exodus 27:18 The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
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