נְחֻשְׁתָּן

נְחֻשְׁתָּן proper name, feminine given to bronze serpent 2 Kong 18,4 probably = bronze-god (so Thes, see also Bau^{Semitic Rel. i. 288}; compare נְחַשׁ נְחשֶׁת v2 Kong 18,4; 4 Mos 21,9 (twice in verse) ); — chief arg. ag. this are vocalization of ᵐ5 Νεσθαλει, A ᵐ5^L Νε(ε)σθαν, and comparative unimportance of material of which image was made; others think of נָחָשׁ serpent (Nö^{ZMG xlii (1888), 482} תן + נחשׁ, Klo^{on the passage} יתן + נחשׁ); Lag^{BN 188, 205} thinks loan-word