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נְחֻשְׁתָּן

ne.chush.tan

Nehushtan

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Strong’s H5180Proper name, a title1 time in the Hebrew Bible

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Translated as

nehushtan1

In the text

2 Kings 18:4נְחֻשְׁתָּן
He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נְחֻשְׁתָּן n.pr. given to bronze serpent 2 K 18:4 prob. = bronze-god

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.