Ne·hush·tan n.  A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses.

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 Nehushtan
    of copper; a brazen thing a name of contempt given to the
    serpent Moses had made in the wilderness (Num. 21:8), and which
    Hezekiah destroyed because the children of Israel began to
    regard it as an idol and "burn incense to it." The lapse of
    nearly one thousand years had invested the "brazen serpent" with
    a mysterious sanctity; and in order to deliver the people from
    their infatuation, and impress them with the idea of its
    worthlessness, Hezekiah called it, in contempt, "Nehushtan," a
    brazen thing, a mere piece of brass (2 Kings 18:4).



 Nehushtan, a trifling thing of brass