נְחֻשְׁ׳

נְחוּשְׁתָּן, נְחֻשְׁ׳I m. (preced.) bronze. Midd. II, 3; Tosef. Yoma II, 4; Y. ib. III, 41a מפנישנ׳ מצהיב because bronze has the appearance of gold; (Bab. ib. 38a מפני שנְחוּשְׁתָּן מצוהבת היתה (from נחושת, v. preced.) because the bronze of which they were made was goldlike). Tosef. l. c. נ׳ קלנתיא היה (Var. נְחוּשְׁתָּא) it was Corinthian bronze; Yoma l. c. נחושת קלוניתאֹ היתה (Ms. M. קלניתא); Yalk. Cant. 985.