Strong's H5178 · Hebrew

nchosheth

nekh-o'-sheth

for 5154; copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H5178a

H5178a נְחֹ֫שֶׁת copper , bronze . copper . fetters of copper or bronze . as less in value than gold but more than wood . fig. of pitiless sky H5178b נְחֹ֫שֶׁת where context favours mng. lust , harlotry , or specif. sens. obscoen.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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