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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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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