nehushtan

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Nehushtan \Ne*hush"tan\, n. [Heb.]
   A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites
   worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses. --2 Kings xviii.
   4.
   [1913 Webster] Neif

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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).

from Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

Nehushtan, a trifling thing of brass