Entry № 7342 · Hebrew origin

Nehushta Nehushta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ neh-HOOSH-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Brass, copper (Jehoiachin's mother)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "brass, copper (jehoiachin's mother)".

Nehushta (נְחֻשְׁתָּא) is from the Hebrew nechosheth (bronze, brass). In 2 Kings 24:8, Nehushta was the daughter of Elnathan and the mother of King Jehoiachin of Judah — taken into Babylonian exile with her son in 597 BCE.

Rare but iconic in biblical scholarship.

Brass. Mother of King Jehoiachin, taken into Babylonian exile.

The name in its native script.

נְחֻשְׁתָּא
Transliteration
Nəḥuštāʾ
Pronunciation
/ nəˈhʊʃ.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nehushta stands.

Nehushta does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nehushtas before her.

Real people
Nehushta
Mother of King Jehoiachin.
In fiction
Nehushta
2 Kings 24:8.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Nehushta.

The number behind Nehushta.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nehushta reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.