Oven
Human-made Things in the Bible
The oven was an implement for cooking food. Ovens were made of hardened clay or brick. They could vary in size and shape. An oven in an average home was roughly 50 centimeters (20 inches) in diameter. In the winter the oven could also serve the purpose of heating a small house. See also Smelting furnace, kiln.
In the Bible
The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used
תַּנּוּר tanur · 15 verses
κλίβανος klibanos · 2 verses
Also in Household
Sources
Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema