χαλκοῦς
of bronze, brazen
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where χαλκοῦς appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 108 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 26:11 χαλκοῦς And you shall make fifty brazen rings; and you shall join the rings by the loops, and you shall join the skins, and they shall be one.
- Leviticus 26:19 χαλκοῦς And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass.
- Numbers 17:2 χαλκοῦς Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods of them, according to the houses of their families, a rod from all their princes, according to the houses of their families, twelve rods, and write the name of each on his rod.
- Deuteronomy 28:23 χαλκοῦς And you shall have over your head a sky of brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.
- 1 Samuel 17:5 χαλκοῦς And he had a helmet upon his head, and he wore a breastplate of chain armor; and the weight of his breastplate was five thousand shekels of brass and iron.
- 2 Samuel 8:8 χαλκοῦς And king David took from Metebac, and from the choice cities of Adraazar, very much brass: with that Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the lavers, and all the furniture.
- 1 Kings 2:35 χαλκοῦς And the king appointed Banaeas son of Jodae in his place over the host; and the kingdom was established in Jerusalem; and as for Sadoc the priest, the king appointed him to be high priest in the room of Abiathar. And Solomon son of David reigned over Israel and Juda in Jerusalem: and the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and largeness of heart, as the sand by the sea-shore.
- 2 Kings 16:14 χαλκοῦς And he brought forward the one before the house of the Lord from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and he set it openly by the side of the altar northwards.
- 1 Chronicles 15:19 χαλκοῦς And the singers, Aeman, Asaph, and Aethan, with brazen cymbals to make a sound to be heard.
- 2 Chronicles 1:5 χαλκοῦς And the brazen altar which Beseleel the son of Urias, the son of Or, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and the congregation enquired at it.
- Ezra 8:27 χαλκοῦς and twenty golden bowls, weighing about a thousand drachmas, and superior vessels of fine shining brass, precious as gold.
- Psalms 17:35 χαλκοῦς And you have made me secure in my salvation: and your right hand has helped me, and your correction has upheld me to the end; yes, your correction itself shall instruct me.
- Isaiah 45:2 χαλκοῦς I will go before you, and will level mountains: I will break to pieces brazen doors, and burst iron bars.
- Jeremiah 1:18 χαλκοῦς Behold, I have made you this day as a strong city, and as a brazen wall, strong against all the kings of Juda, and the princes thereof, and the people of the land.
- Ezekiel 9:2 χαλκοῦς And, behold, six men came from the way of the high gate that looks toward the north, and each one's axe was in his hand; and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with a long robe down to the feet, and a sapphire girdle was on his loins: and they came in and stood near the brazen altar.
- Daniel 2:32 χαλκοῦς It was an image, the head of which was of fine gold, its hands and breast and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of brass,
- Micah 4:13 χαλκοῦς Arise, and thresh them, O daughter of Sion: for I will make your horns iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall utterly destroy many nations, and shall consecrate their abundance to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of all the earth.
- Zechariah 6:1 χαλκοῦς And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, four chariots coming out from between two mountains; and the mountains were brazen mountains.
About this word
About this word
χαλκοῦς (chalkoûs), “of bronze, brazen,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 108 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →