Lexical Definition

‎נְחֻשְׁתָּן‎ Nᵉchushtân (nekh-oosh-tawn') Nehushtan ^N:N-M-T
from ‎נְחֹשֶׁת‎

Nehushtan.

• § Nehushtan = "a thing of brass"
• something made of copper, i.e. the copper serpent of the Desert

1) 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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎נְחֻשְׁתָּן‎ proper name, feminine given to bronze serpent 2Kgs 18:4 probably = bronze-god (so Thes, see also Bau^{Semitic Rel. i. 288}; compare ‎נְחַשׁ נְחשֶׁת‎ v2Kgs 18:4; Num 21:9 (twice in verse) ); — chief arg. ag. this are vocalization of ᵐ5 Νεσθαλει, A ᵐ5^L 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

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