# נְחֹשֶׁת (nechoshet)

Israeli respelling: ne-cho-shet. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5178. 119 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/nechoshet-h5178

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 4:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/4/22) — And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
- [Exodus 25:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/25/3) — And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
- [Exodus 26:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sh…
- [Exodus 27:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 t…
- [Exodus 27:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/27/6) — And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
- [Exodus 27:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 socket…
- [Exodus 27:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Exodus 27:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/27/19) — All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
- [Exodus 30:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/30/18) — Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the cong…
- [Exodus 31:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/31/4) — To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
- [Exodus 35:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/35/5) — Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and sil…
- [Exodus 35:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/35/16) — The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
- [Exodus 35:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/35/24) — Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD’s offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for a…
- [Exodus 35:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/35/32) — And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
- [Exodus 36:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/36/18) — And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
- [Exodus 36:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/36/38) — And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of br…
- [Exodus 38:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/2) — And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
- [Exodus 38:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/3) — And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels…
- [Exodus 38:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/4) — And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
- [Exodus 38:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/5) — And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
- [Exodus 38:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/6) — And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
- [Exodus 38:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/8) — And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of…
- [Exodus 38:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/10) — Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
- [Exodus 38:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/11) — And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the…
- [Exodus 38:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/17) — And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters…
- [Exodus 38:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/19) — And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillet…
- [Exodus 38:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/20) — And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
- [Exodus 38:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/29) — And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
- [Exodus 38:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/30) — And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and…
- [Exodus 39:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/39/39) — The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
- [Leviticus 6:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/6/28) — But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in w…
- [Numbers 16:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/39) — And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering…
- [Numbers 21:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/9) — And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the se…
- [Numbers 31:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/22) — Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
- [Deuteronomy 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/9) — A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose…
- [Deuteronomy 28:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/23) — And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
- [Deuteronomy 33:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/25) — Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
- [Joshua 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/19) — But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
- [Joshua 6:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/24) — And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put…
- [Joshua 22:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/8) — And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with br…
- [Judges 16:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/21) — But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in…
- [1 Samuel 17:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/5) — And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of…
- [1 Samuel 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/6) — And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
- [1 Samuel 17:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/38) — And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
- [2 Samuel 3:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/3/34) — Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again…
- [2 Samuel 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/8/8) — And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
- [2 Samuel 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/8/10) — Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for…
- [2 Samuel 21:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/16) — And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being gi…
- [1 Kings 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/4/13) — The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the r…
- [1 Kings 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/14) — He was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and unde…
- [1 Kings 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/15) — For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
- [1 Kings 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/16) — And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the hei…
- [1 Kings 7:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/27) — And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of…
- [1 Kings 7:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/30) — And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetter…
- [1 Kings 7:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/38) — Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one…
- [1 Kings 7:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/45) — And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of b…
- [1 Kings 7:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/47) — And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
- [1 Kings 8:64](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/64) — The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and m…
- [1 Kings 14:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/27) — And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of t…
- [2 Kings 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/16/14) — And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of t…
- [2 Kings 16:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/16/15) — And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and…
- [2 Kings 16:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/16/17) — And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that we…
- [2 Kings 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/4) — He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for…
- [2 Kings 25:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/7) — And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him…
- [2 Kings 25:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/13) — And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the C…
- [2 Kings 25:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/14) — And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
- [2 Kings 25:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/16) — The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
- [2 Kings 25:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/17) — The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the…
- [1 Chronicles 15:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/15/19) — So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;
- [1 Chronicles 18:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/18/8) — Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pi…
- [1 Chronicles 18:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/18/10) — He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smi…
- [1 Chronicles 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/3) — And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
- [1 Chronicles 22:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/14) — Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents o…
- [1 Chronicles 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/16) — Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
- [1 Chronicles 29:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/2) — Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver,…
- [1 Chronicles 29:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/7) — And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and…
- [2 Chronicles 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/1/5) — Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon an…
- [2 Chronicles 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/1/6) — And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand bu…
- [2 Chronicles 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/7) — Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and th…
- [2 Chronicles 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/14) — The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in…
- [2 Chronicles 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/4/1) — Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height ther…
- [2 Chronicles 4:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/4/9) — Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
- [2 Chronicles 4:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/4/16) — The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of t…
- [2 Chronicles 4:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/4/18) — Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
- [2 Chronicles 6:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/13) — For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of th…
- [2 Chronicles 7:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/7) — Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat…
- [2 Chronicles 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/12/10) — Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of…
- [2 Chronicles 24:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/24/12) — And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repai…
- [2 Chronicles 33:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/33/11) — Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him w…
- [2 Chronicles 36:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/36/6) — Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
- [Ezra 8:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/27) — Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
- [Psalms 107:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/16) — For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
- [Isaiah 60:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/17) — For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace…
- [Jeremiah 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/1/18) — For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of J…
- [Jeremiah 6:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/28) — They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
- [Jeremiah 15:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/12) — Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
- [Jeremiah 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/20) — And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for…
- [Jeremiah 39:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/39/7) — Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
- [Jeremiah 52:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/11) — Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till t…
- [Jeremiah 52:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/17) — Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chal…
- [Jeremiah 52:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/18) — The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered…
- [Jeremiah 52:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/20) — The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the bras…
- [Jeremiah 52:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/22) — And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round…
- [Lamentations 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/7) — He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
- [Ezekiel 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/1/7) — And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burn…
- [Ezekiel 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/9/2) — And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and…
- [Ezekiel 16:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/36) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and wit…
- [Ezekiel 22:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/18) — Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they a…
- [Ezekiel 22:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/20) — As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will…
- [Ezekiel 24:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/24/11) — Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it,…
- [Ezekiel 27:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/13) — Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
- [Ezekiel 40:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/3) — And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand…
- [Daniel 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/6) — His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet lik…
- [Zechariah 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/6/1) — And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains…