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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Brass
Scofield Reference Index
• Brass
Thompson Chain Reference
• Brass
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Brass or Copper
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Laver of Brass
• Brass, or Copper
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Brass
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Brass
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Brass
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Serpent of Brass
• Brass
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Brass
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Brass
King James Dictionary
• Brass
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Serpent of Brass
• Brass
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Monumental Brasses
• Memorial Brasses
• Brasses, Monumental
•   (only first 3 shown)
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Brass
People's Bible Dictionary
• Brass
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Brass
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Brass, Brazen
Wilson's Bible Types
• Brass (Brazen)
Webster Dictionary
• Brasses
• Brasse
• Brass-Visaged
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Brass
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Brass (Alloy)
• Brass, Nigeria
• Monumental Brasses
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Brass; Brazen
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Brass
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Brass
• Brass (2)
• Brasses, Sepulchral
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Brass, Sampson
• Brasses
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Memorial Brasses
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Brass
Lexicons
• ܢܚܳܫܳܐ
• χάλκεος , χαλκοῦς
• χαλκολίβανον
• χαλκός
• נָחושּׁ
• נְחושָּׁה
• נְחָשׁ
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This word occurs in the Authorized Version. But brass is a factitious metal, not known to the early Hebrews, and wherever it occurs, copper is to be understood [COPPER]. That copper is meant is shown by the text, 'Out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass' (Deuteronomy 8:9), it being of course impossible to dig a factitious metal, whether brass or bronze, out of mines.

Brass (to retain the word) is in Scripture the symbol of insensibility, baseness, and presumption or obstinacy in sin (Isaiah 48:4; Jeremiah 6:28; Ezekiel 22:18). Brass is also a symbol of strength (Psalms 107:16; Isaiah 48:4; Micah 4:13). So in Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 15:20, brazen walls signify a strong and lasting adversary or opponent.