Briefly, … no.
Confirming @jpm 's first comment, …
- “The Nehustan” is the only occurrence of the term in the Bible: i.e. a hapax legomenon in the Bible]. m.n. ‘Nehushtan’ — serpent of brass made by Moses (a hapax legomenon in the Bible, occurring Kin. II 18:4). [Derived from [נְחשֶׁת](/Klein Dictionary,).], נְחֻשְׁתִּי adj. NH brassy, of copper. [Formed from [נְחשֶׁת](/Klein Dictionary,_נְחֽשֶׁת.1) with suffix “yod”.]. In other words, Hezekiah called the object that he destroyed “the nehustan” [the brassy thing], and treated it as an idol, made by human hands.
- In his commentary, Rashi wrote: " And he [Hezekiah] called it Nechushton. A derogatory expression,3 The additional “nun” to the word נחשת serves to belittle and mock the subject. See II Shmuel 13:20. as though to say, “Why is this necessary?4 The copper serpent was not destroyed before now because it was incorrectly believed that one may not destroy any object that was made as a result of a Divine command. The serpent was originally made to encourage the Bnei Yisroel to pray to God after they were bitten by poisonous snakes. See Bamidbar 21:4-10 and Tosfos in Maseches Chulin 7a. It is also possible that they kept the copper serpent as a remembrance of the great miracle that occurred, just as they kept the jar of manna, in Shemos 16:33-35. It is nothing but a copper serpent.”5
- Confirming @Relates ’ comment, the sequence of events:
- Poisonous snakes attacked the Israelites in the desert.
- The Lord commanded Moses to make an object that looked like a snake and put it on a pole, but the Lord was not commanding Moses to make an object for the Israelites to worship. The Lord wanted the people to remember who is God, to repent, and to live.
- “The brassy thing” became an idol to which Israelites began offering sacrifices.
- Hezekiah put an end to that practice along with several others.
The וְהַנָּחָשׁ֙ (ha-nacash), on the other hand refers to the living creature in the Garden who “seduced” Eve. The English translation of the Hebrew noun, (pronounced “nacash”) is serpent. But, notice that in Genesis, the Lord punished the creature for its role in Adam and Eve’s sin by condemning it to crawl on its belly.
- “Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all the livestock, And more than any animal of the field; On your belly you shall go, And dust you shall eat All the days of your life; …"
- In other words, before the Lord cursed the serpent, it didn’t crawl on its belly; it walked on legs. According to Jewish legend, the serpent was originally a four-legged creature, somewhat like a camel, that Samael the Archangel rode on. [Samael was known as “the Angel of Death”.]
[For my spin on the serpent, see: Notes on the Jewish Roots of the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin].
- In other words, before the Lord cursed the serpent, it didn’t crawl on its belly; it walked on legs. According to Jewish legend, the serpent was originally a four-legged creature, somewhat like a camel, that Samael the Archangel rode on. [Samael was known as “the Angel of Death”.]
Personally, I’m surprised that more atheists and heathen don’t claim that the story of the Serpent’s seduction of Eve and its punishment was once some old grandfather’s explanation to kids of “how the snake lost its legs”, when the kids asked: “Why is the snake the only reptile that doesn’t have legs?”
Trivia: the human tendency to attribute miraculous powers to objects made by human hands is a common Protestant (or Jehovah’s Witness) justification for accusing folks who make and use crucifixes in their churches of “idolatry”, versus the preferred crosses without “a body” on them.