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nᵊḥuštān נְחֻשְׁתָּן ‘Nehushtan’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from nᵊḥōšet נְחֹ֫שֶׁת ‘bronze / lust’
Roots: נחושׁת

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Nehushtan = "a thing of brass"
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

Mentioned in 2 Kings 18:4

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