Nehushtan

English

Etymology

Hebrew: the name given in the Bible to the brass serpent made by Moses which the Israelites worshipped in the desert.

Noun

Nehushtan (plural Nehushtans)

  1. Any false idol.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Nehushtan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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