Wat betekent koper in de Bijbel? Kracht, hardheid en glorie

In the Bible, copper stands for strength, for stubborn hardness, for something worth less than gold and, when polished, for the shining of heaven, each meaning set by its own verse. The metal has no power of its own. Older English Bibles call it brass, but the Hebrew nechosheth means copper or bronze. One bronze object matters more than the rest. In the wilderness, when the people were dying of snakebite, God told Moses to make a serpent and set…