serpent. Hebrew. nachash,. shining thing of brass, as in Deuteronomy 8:15; 2 Kings 18:4, &c.: so that nachash is synonymous with saraph, and both words are thus used of serpents.
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Numbers 21:9
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.