# H5178 נְחֹשֶׁת

נְחֹשֶׁת (nᵉchôsheth), Strong’s H5178: copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver) KJV: brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter…

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*nᵉchôsheth* — copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)

KJV: brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.

Occurs 140 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- נְחֹ֫שֶׁת 137 n.m. copper, bronze
- 1 copper
- 2 fetters of copper or bronze
- 3 as less in value than gold but more than wood
- 4 fig. of pitiless sky
- נְחֹ֫שֶׁת n.[f.]
- [נְחֹ֫שֶׁת] n.[f.] Ez 16:36 where context favours mng. lust, harlotry, or specif. sens. obscoen.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 4:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=22) — Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron. Tubal Cain’s sister…
- [Exodus 25:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=3) — This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, bronze,
- [Exodus 26:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=11) — You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be…
- [Exodus 26:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=37) — You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold. You…
- [Exodus 27:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=2) — You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
- [Exodus 27:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=3) — You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You…
- [Exodus 27:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=4) — You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.
- [Exodus 27:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=6) — You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
- [Exodus 27:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=10) — Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be…
- [Exodus 27:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=11) — Likewise for the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and…