Topical Bible: Brass

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Brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, is frequently mentioned in the Bible, often symbolizing strength, durability, and judgment. In biblical times, the term "brass" was used to refer to what we now understand as bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, as zinc was not commonly used until later periods. The Hebrew word often translated as "brass" is "nechosheth," which can also mean copper or bronze.

Biblical References and Symbolism

1. Construction and Craftsmanship: Brass was a significant material in the construction of the Tabernacle and the Temple. It was used for various sacred objects, including the altar of burnt offering, the laver, and other utensils. In Exodus 27:1-3, the altar of burnt offering is described: "You are to construct the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide—the altar is to be square—and three cubits high. Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns are of one piece with the altar, and overlay it with bronze. Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots to remove the ashes, its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans."

2. Symbol of Strength and Judgment: Brass is often associated with strength and judgment. In the vision of Daniel, the statue representing successive empires had legs of iron and feet partly of iron and partly of clay, but its belly and thighs were of bronze (Daniel 2:32). This imagery suggests a kingdom characterized by strength and endurance.

3. The Serpent of Brass: In Numbers 21:8-9, God instructs Moses to make a serpent of brass and set it on a pole so that anyone bitten by a snake could look at it and live. "Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.' So Moses made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze serpent, he lived." This event is later referenced by Jesus in John 3:14-15 as a foreshadowing of His crucifixion, symbolizing salvation and healing through faith.

4. The Bronze Sea: In Solomon's Temple, the "Bronze Sea" was a large basin used by the priests for ceremonial washing. It was made of cast metal and stood on twelve oxen, three facing each cardinal direction (1 Kings 7:23-26). This massive structure symbolized purification and the cleansing power of God.

5. Judgment and Refinement: In Revelation 1:15, the feet of the glorified Christ are described as "like polished bronze, refined in a furnace," symbolizing His purity, strength, and authority to judge. This imagery conveys the idea of divine judgment and the refining process that purifies and strengthens.

Cultural and Historical Context

In ancient times, the process of smelting and working with metals like brass was a highly skilled craft. The ability to produce and utilize brass was a sign of technological advancement and wealth. The use of brass in the construction of sacred objects and structures underscored its value and significance in worship and religious practices.

Conclusion

Throughout the Bible, brass serves as a powerful symbol of strength, judgment, and divine authority. Its use in sacred contexts highlights its importance in the religious and cultural life of ancient Israel. The imagery associated with brass in Scripture continues to convey profound spiritual truths about God's nature and His relationship with humanity.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Brass

The word nechosheth is improperly translated by "brass." In most places of the Old Testament the correct translation would be copper, although it may sometimes possibly mean bronze a compound of copper and tin. Indeed a simple metal was obviously intended, as we see from (8:9; 33:25; Job 28) Copper was known at a very early period. (Genesis 4:22)

ATS Bible Dictionary

Brass

Is frequently mentioned in the English Bible, Genesis 4:22 De 8:9; but there is little doubt that copper is intended, brass being a mixed metal-two-thirds copper and one-third zinc-for the manufacture of which we are indebted to the Germans. The ancients knew nothing of that particular compound, though well acquainted with bronze, of which arms, mirrors, and ornaments were made. Copper was used for many purposes about the temple, Le 6:28 Numbers 16:39 2 Chronicles 4:16; for filters, Jud 16:21 2 Kings 25:7; for armor, 1 Samuel 17:5,6,38; for musical instruments, 1 Chronicles 15:19; and for money, Matthew 10:9. "Brass" is used to describe drought, insensibility, baseness, and obstinacy in sin, Le 26:19 De 28:23 Isaiah 48:4 Jeremiah 6:28 Ezekiel 22:18. It is also a symbol of strength, Psalm 107:16 Daniel 2:39 Zechariah 6:1. See COPPER.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Which is an alloy of copper and zinc, was not known till the thirteenth century. What is designated by this word in Scripture is properly copper (Deuteronomy 8:9). It was used for fetters (Judges 16:21; 2 Kings 25:7), for pieces of armour (1 Samuel 17:5, 6), for musical instruments (1 Chronicles 15:19; 1 Corinthians 13:1), and for money (Matthew 10:9).

It is a symbol of insensibility and obstinacy in sin (Isaiah 48:4; Jeremiah 6:28; Ezek. 22:18), and of strength (Psalm 107:16; Micah 4:13).

The Macedonian empire is described as a kingdom of brass (Dan. 2:39). The "mountains of brass" Zechariah (6:1) speaks of have been supposed to represent the immutable decrees of God.

The serpent of brass was made by Moses at the command of God (Numbers 21:4-9), and elevated on a pole, so that it might be seen by all the people when wounded by the bite of the serpents that were sent to them as a punishment for their murmurings against God and against Moses. It was afterwards carried by the Jews into Canaan, and preserved by them till the time of Hezekiah, who caused it to be at length destroyed because it began to be viewed by the people with superstitious reverence (2 Kings 18:4). (see NEHUSHTAN.)

The brazen serpent is alluded to by our Lord in John 3:14, 15. (see SERPENT.)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.

2. (n.) A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Bearing.

3. (n.) Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.

4. (n.) Impudence; a brazen face.

5. (n.) Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.

6. (n.) A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.

7. (n.) Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

BRASS; BRAZEN

bras (nechosheth): The use of the word brass has always been more or less indefinite in its application. At the present time the term brass is applied to an alloy of copper and zinc or of copper, zinc and tin. The word translated "brass" in the King James Version would be more correctly rendered bronze, since the alloy used was copper and tin (Exodus 27:4). In some passages however copper is meant (Deuteronomy 8:9), as bronze is an artificial product. This alloy was known in Egypt in at least 1600 B.C. It was probably known in Europe still earlier (2000 B.C.), which helps to answer the question as to the source of the tin. Bronze was probably of European origin and was carried to Egypt. At a later period the Egyptians made the alloy themselves, bringing their copper from Sinai, Cyprus or northern Syria (see COPPER), and their tin from the Balkan regions or from Spain or the British Isles (see TIN). When the Children of Israel came into the promised land, they found the Canaanites already skilled in the making and use of bronze instruments. This period marked the transition from the bronze age to the iron age in Palestine Museums possessing antiquities from Bible lands have among their collections many and varied bronze objects. Among the most common are nails, lamps, hand mirrors, locks, cutting instruments, etc. Within comparatively recent times brass, meaning an alloy of copper and zinc, has been introduced into Syria. The alloy is made by the native workmen (see CRAFTS). Sheet brass is now being extensively imported for the making of bowls, vases, etc. Bronze is practically unknown in the modern native articles

Figurative: "Brass," naturally, is used in Scripture as the symbol of what is firm, strong, lasting; hence, "gates of brass" (Psalm 107:16), "hoofs of brass" (Micah 4:13), "walls of brass" (Jeremiah is made as a "brazen wall," Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 15:20), "mountains of brass" (Daniel 2:35, the Macedonian empire; the arms of ancient times were mostly of bronze). It becomes a symbol, therefore, of hardness, obstinacy, insensibility, in sin, as "brow of brass" (Isaiah 48:4); "they are brass and iron" (Jeremiah 6:28, of the wicked); "all of them are brass" (Ezekiel 22:18, of Israel).

James A. Patch

Greek

5470. chalkous -- brazen (ie of copper, bronze, brass)
... brazen (ie of copper, bronze, brass). Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration:
chalkous Phonetic Spelling: (khal'-keh-os) Short Definition: made of bronze ...
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5474. chalkolibanon -- chalcolibanus (fine copper, bronze or brass ...
... chalcolibanus (fine copper, bronze or brass). Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: chalkolibanon Phonetic Spelling: (khal-kol-ib'-an-on) Short ...
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5473. chalkion -- a brazen (ie of copper, bronze, brass) vessel
... a brazen (ie of copper, bronze, brass) vessel. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: chalkion Phonetic Spelling: (khal-kee'-on) Short Definition: a ...
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5475. chalkos -- copper or bronze
... copper or bronze. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: chalkos Phonetic
Spelling: (khal-kos') Short Definition: copper, brass, money Definition ...
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5471. chalkeus -- a worker in metal
... a worker in metal. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: chalkeus Phonetic
Spelling: (khalk-yooce') Short Definition: a worker in brass or copper ...
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787. assarion -- an assarion, a farthing (one tenth of a drachma)
... the tenth part of a drachma. 787 -- a brass (Roman) coin of little value,
ie "small change.". Word Origin of Latin origin Definition ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5178. nechosheth -- copper, bronze
... Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition copper, bronze NASB Word Usage brass
(2), bronze (130), bronze chains (1), bronze fetters (2), chain (1), copper ...
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5154. nechushah -- copper, bronze
... brass, steel. Or nchushah {nekh-oo-shaw'}; feminine of nachuwsh; copper -- brass,
steel. Compare Nachash. see HEBREW nachuwsh. see HEBREW Nachash. 5153, 5154 ...
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5174. nechash -- copper, bronze
... brass. (Aramaic) corresponding to nchuwshah; copper -- brass. see HEBREW
nchuwshah. 5173, 5174. nechash. 5175 . Strong's Numbers.
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5153. nachush -- of bronze
... Definition: bronze. Word Origin from the same as nechosheth Definition of bronze
NASB Word Usage bronze (1). of brass. Apparently passive ...
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Library

Gold and Silver not Superior in Origin or in Utility to Other ...
... But iron, and brass, and other the vilest material substances, enjoy a parity of
condition (with silver and gold), both as to earthly origin and metallurgic ...
/.../tertullian/on the apparel of women/chapter v gold and silver not.htm

The Absurd Doctrine of Abaelard, who Attributes Properly and ...
... of discernment which the Son is, is a particular kind of Power, just as a man is
a kind of animal, and a brazen seal a particular form of brass, which means ...
/.../chapter iii the absurd doctrine.htm

The Building of the Golden House.
... in the quarries, cutting great stones, and there were men in the forests of Lebanon
cutting and hewing cedars, and others gathering iron and brass, and gold ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxvi the building of.htm

In the Trinity it is not Possible to Admit any Disparity: but ...
... It is not a similitude, but a dissimilitude, as is also that of brass and the brazen
seal; for since genus and species are to each other as higher and lower ...
/.../some letters of saint bernard abbot of clairvaux/chapter ii in the trinity.htm

Synagogues in the City; and Schools.
... The Gloss renders 'the braziers' by 'workmen by brass.'"The reason why the Alexandrians
were so called, you may fetch, perhaps, from this story: "There was a ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 36 synagogues in the.htm

Letter xxxiii. To Paula.
... 749] because of the countless books which he wrote for Latin readers; and Greek
writers are extravagant in their praise of their man of brass, [750] because he ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter xxxiii to paula.htm

Hiram, the Inspired Artificer
... They had to supply the cedar wood, iron, copper, brass, tin, gold, silver, and the
rich fabrics which have made proverbial the sumptuous and beautiful raiment ...
/.../milligan/men of the bible some lesser-known/hiram the inspired artificer.htm

How those who Fear Scourges and those who Contemn them are to be ...
... the children of Israel, captive, but yet not converted from their iniquity, saying,
The house of Israel is to Me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/chapter xiii how those who.htm

Christmas and the Aesthetes
... Booth's housing scheme is right. But any healthy person can see that banging
brass cymbals together must be right. A page of statistics ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/heretics/vi christmas and the aesthetes.htm

Of the Building of this Temple
... This man was skillful in all sorts of work; but his chief skill lay in working in
gold, and silver, and brass; by whom were made all the mechanical works about ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 3 of the building.htm

Thesaurus

Brass (168 Occurrences)
... The Macedonian empire is described as a kingdom of brass (Dan. 2:39). ... 2. (n.)
A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. ...
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Water-vessel (14 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 16:17 And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down
the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put ...
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Wheeled (6 Occurrences)
... Wheeled (6 Occurrences). 1 Kings 7:27 And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every
one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high. (BBE). ...
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Polished (23 Occurrences)
... Polished (23 Occurrences). Revelation 1:15 And his feet like polished brass, as
if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters. ...
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Grating (6 Occurrences)
... grat, grat'-ing (mikhbar, resheth; the King James Version Grate): This "grating
of network of brass" (Exodus 27:4; Exodus 38:4), called also "the net" (Exodus ...
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Washing-vessel (8 Occurrences)
... Exodus 30:18 You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put
it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it; (BBE). ...
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Pegs (22 Occurrences)
... for the covering five pillars of shittim 'wood', and hast overlaid them 'with' gold,
their pegs 'are' of gold, and thou hast cast for them five sockets of brass...
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Sockets (44 Occurrences)
... shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their
hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them. ...
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Corded (37 Occurrences)
... Samuel 6:5 And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with
all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass...
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Grate (6 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary A network of brass for the bottom of the great altar of
sacrifice (Exodus 27:4; 35:16; 38:4, 5, 30). Noah Webster's Dictionary. ...
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Resources

What was the significance of the bronze laver? | GotQuestions.org

What was Nehushtan? | GotQuestions.org

What was the brazen altar? | GotQuestions.org

Brass: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Concordance

Brass (168 Occurrences)

Matthew 10:9
Don't take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Mark 6:8
and he commanded them that they may take nothing for the way, except a staff only -- no scrip, no bread, no brass in the girdle,
(YLT)

Mark 7:4
And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.
(BBE)

Mark 12:41
And Jesus having sat down over-against the treasury, was beholding how the multitude do put brass into the treasury, and many rich were putting in much,
(YLT)

Mark 12:42
A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.
(WEB)

Luke 21:2
He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.
(WEB)

1 Corinthians 13:1
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Revelation 1:15
His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Revelation 2:18
"To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Revelation 9:20
The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS)

Revelation 18:12
merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Genesis 4:22
Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Exodus 25:3
This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 26:11
You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 26:37
You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 27:2
You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 27:3
You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 27:4
You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 27:6
You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 27:10
and its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 27:11
Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 27:17
All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 27:18
The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 27:19
All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 30:18
"You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 31:4
to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 35:5
'Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: gold, silver, brass,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 35:16
the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, it poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;
(WEB JPS ASV BBE)

Exodus 35:24
Everyone who did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Yahweh's offering; and everyone, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 35:32
and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 36:18
He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 36:38
and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 38:2
He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 38:3
He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 38:4
He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE)

Exodus 38:5
He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles. Numbers
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Exodus 38:6
He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 38:8
He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 38:10
their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE)

Exodus 38:11
For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 38:17
The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 38:19
Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 38:20
All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Exodus 38:30
From it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent of meeting and the brass altar and the network for it and all the vessels for the altar,
(BBE)

Exodus 39:39
the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS)

Leviticus 6:28
But the vessel of earth in which the flesh was cooked is to be broken; or if a brass vessel was used, it is to be rubbed clean and washed out with water.
(BBE YLT)

Leviticus 26:19
I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 16:39
So Eleazar the priest took the brass vessels which had been offered by those who were burned up, and they were hammered out to make a cover for the altar:
(BBE)

Numbers 21:9
Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Numbers 31:22
however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

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 hills thou mayest dig brass.
(KJV JPS WBS YLT)

Deuteronomy 28:23
Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Deuteronomy 33:25
Your bars shall be iron and brass. As your days, so your strength will be.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Joshua 6:19
But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh's treasury."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Joshua 6:24
They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh's house.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Joshua 22:8
and spoke to them, saying, "Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Judges 16:21
The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS)

1 Samuel 17:5
He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

1 Samuel 17:6
He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

1 Samuel 17:38
Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of brass on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT)

2 Samuel 6:5
And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass.
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2 Samuel 8:8
From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
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2 Samuel 8:10
then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
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2 Samuel 21:16
and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
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2 Samuel 22:35
He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.
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1 Kings 4:13
... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great towns with walls and locks of brass.
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1 Kings 7:14
He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
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1 Kings 7:15
For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about.
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1 Kings 7:16
He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
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1 Kings 7:27
He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height.
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1 Kings 7:30
Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet of it had supports: beneath the basin were the supports molten, with wreaths at the side of each.
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1 Kings 7:38
He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin.
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1 Kings 7:45
and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass.
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1 Kings 7:47
Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.
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1 Kings 8:64
The same day the king made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering there the burned offering and the meal offering and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar of the Lord for the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings.
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1 Kings 14:27
King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
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1 Kings 18:33
He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, "Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood." brass, the iron for the
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2 Kings 16:14
And the brass altar, which was before the Lord, he took from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.
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2 Kings 16:15
And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord.
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2 Kings 16:17
And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.
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2 Kings 18:4
He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.
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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 to Babylon.
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2 Kings 25:13
The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
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2 Kings 25:14
The pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.
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2 Kings 25:16
The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh, the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
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2 Kings 25:17
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network.
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1 Chronicles 13:8
Then David and all Israel made melody before God with all their strength, with songs and corded instruments of music, and with brass instruments and horns.
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1 Chronicles 15:16
And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy.
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1 Chronicles 15:19
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;
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1 Chronicles 15:28
So all Israel took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, with loud cries and with horns and brass and corded instruments sounding loudly.
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1 Chronicles 16:5
Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Uzziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel, with corded instruments of music; and Asaph, with brass instruments sounding loudly;
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1 Chronicles 16:42
And Heman and Jeduthun had horns and brass instruments sounding loudly, and instruments of music for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun were to be at the door.
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1 Chronicles 18:8
From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
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1 Chronicles 18:10
he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him; (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou;) and he had with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
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1 Chronicles 22:3
David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;
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1 Chronicles 22:14
Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, and one million talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and you may add to them.
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1 Chronicles 22:16
of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and Yahweh be with you.
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1 Chronicles 25:1
Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the holy place made selection of certain of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun for the work of prophets, to make melody with corded instruments and brass; and the number of the men for the work they had to do was:
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1 Chronicles 25:6
All these, under the direction of their father, made music in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments, for the worship of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the orders of the king.
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1 Chronicles 29:2
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the things of silver, and the brass for the things of to be set, stones for inlaid work, and of various colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
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Subtopics

Brass

Brass of Syria

Brass: A Mineral of Canaan

Brass: Abundance of, for the Temple

Brass: Alexander

Brass: Articles Made of Altar, Vessels, and Other Articles of the Tabernacle and Temple

Brass: Articles Made of Armor

Brass: Articles Made of Bars

Brass: Articles Made of Cymbals

Brass: Articles Made of Fetters

Brass: Articles Made of Gates