Bible Names

Nehushtan: meaning of the name

Nehushtan means “a trifling thing of brass.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Nehushtan in Hebrew and Greek

נְחֻשְׁתָּן H5180

Nᵉchushtân (nekh-oosh-tawn') — something made of copper, i.e. the copper serpent of the Desert

from H5178 (נְחֹשֶׁת);

Nehushtan in Scripture

“Nehushtan” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 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 unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.