2 Samuel 22:35
He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
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Steel
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Jeremiah 15:12
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
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נְחוּשָׁה
nᵉchûwshâh · nekh-oo-shaw'
3 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
copper
Strong's KJV usage: brass, steel. Compare 5176.
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Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:35Strong's last: Psalms 18:34
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nᵉchôsheth · nekh-o'-sheth
1 times translated as this KJV form141 total Strong's occurrences
copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)
Strong's KJV usage: brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 15:12Strong's last: Jeremiah 15:12
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H5154
He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
H5154
He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
H5154
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
H5178
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
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steel
STEEL, noun [G.]
1. Iron combined with a small portion of carbon; iron refined and hardened, used in making instruments, and particularly useful as the material of edged tools. It is called in chemistry, carburet of iron; but this is more usually the denomination of plumbago.
2. Figuratively, weapons; particularly, offensive weapons, swords, spears and the like.
Brave Macbeth with his brandishd steel
-- While doubting thus he stood, receivd the steel bathd in this brothers blood.
3. Medicines composed of steel as steel fillings.
After relaxing, steel strengthens the solids.
4. Extreme hardness; as heads or hearts of steel
STEEL, adjective Made of steel; as a steel plate or buckle.
STEEL, verb transitive
1. To overlay, point or edge with steel; as, to steel the point of a sword; to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
2. To make hard or extremely hard.
O God of battles, steel my soldiers hearts.
Lies well steeld with weighty arguments.
3. To make hard; to make insensible or obdurate; as, to steel the heart against pity; to steel the mind or heart against reproof or admonition.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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