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# תַּנּוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8574

**stove** — used 15 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

stove [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8574/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּנּוּר: n.m. stove fire-pot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8574/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 26:26 portable stove or fire-pot (loan-word form Assyrian tinûru, id., according to DHMVOJ i. 23 (otherwise DvořákZK i. 155 ff.); ת׳, a large earthen jar, still in Syria, WetzstVerhandl. d. Berl. Anthrop. Gesell., 1882, 467 WhitehouseHeb. Antiq. 7, 3 ARSKEB i. 605; Arabic تَنُّورٌ is loan-word from Aramaic תַּנּוּרָא, ܬܰܢܽܘܪܳܐ, and this from Pers. tanûra, according to Frä26);—ת׳ abs. Ho 7:4 +, cstr. Gn 15:17 ψ 21:10; pl. תַּנּוּרִים Ne 3:11; 12:38;—fire-pot, for baking (אָפָה) Ho 7:4 (read ת׳ בֹּעֵר הֵ֑ם אֹפֵהוּ וגו׳, OortTh Tijdschr. 1890, 480 ff. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 88), cf. v 6, 7 (all in sim.), Ex 7:28 (J), Lv 2:4; 7:9; 26:26 (P), also (breakable) 11:35; ת׳ עָשָׁן Gn 15:17 (JE) in vision, symbol of י׳’s presence, cf.Is 31:9 (‖ אוּר); sim. of heat La 5:10, of judgment Mal 3:19 and so ת׳ אֵשׁ ψ 21:10; מִגְדַּל הַתַּנּוּרִים Ne 3:11; 12:38 a tower on wall of Jerus.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: an oven (5); oven (4); the ovens (2).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.10/#tree)

עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב׃

*Word for word:* skin our like an.oven they.have.grown.hot because of \[the\].burning.heat(s) of.hunger

*JPS 1917:* Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

[Hosea 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.4/#tree)

כֻּלָּם֙ מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים כְּמ֣וֹ תַנּ֔וּר בֹּעֵ֖רָה מֵֽאֹפֶ֑ה יִשְׁבּ֣וֹת מֵעִ֔יר מִלּ֥וּשׁ בָּצֵ֖ק עַד־חֻמְצָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* of.them all \[are\].adulterers like an.oven \[which\].burns from a.baker \[who\].he.ceases stirring.up from kneading \[the\].dough until it is.leavened

*JPS 1917:* They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8574.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8574/): 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).