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# כּוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3564

**smelting-pot** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

smelting-pot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3564/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כּוּר: smelting-pot or furnace [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3564/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] smelting-pot or furnace (Arabic كُور; NH id.; Aramaic id., ܟܽܘܪ; Ethiopic ከውር: )—pot or furnace for smelting metals, but alw. in metaph. or sim. of human sufferings in punishment or discipline: iron (fig. of Egypt as place of bondage) מִכּ׳ הַבַּרְזֶל Dt 4:20 Je 11:4, מִתּוֹךְ כ׳ הַבּ׳ 1 K 8:51; gold כ׳ לַזָּהָב Pr 17:3 = 27:21 (‖ מַצְרֵף); various metals Ez 22:18, 20, 22; once בְּכוּר עֹ֑נִי Is 48:10 in a smelting-pot of a affliction.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a furnace (3); of a furnace (3); the furnace (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 48:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.48.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.48.10/#tree)

הִנֵּ֥ה צְרַפְתִּ֖יךָ וְלֹ֣א בְכָ֑סֶף בְּחַרְתִּ֖יךָ בְּכ֥וּר עֹֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* here! I have.refined.you and not (in) silver I have.chosen.you in a.furnace of.affliction

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.

[Proverbs 17:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.3/#tree)

מַצְרֵ֣ף לַ֭כֶּסֶף וְכ֣וּר לַזָּהָ֑ב וּבֹחֵ֖ן לִבּ֣וֹת יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.crucible \[is\].for (the) silver and a.furnace \[is\].for (the) gold and.\[is\] testing hearts Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3564.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3564/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).