כִּבְשָׁן
kibshân · H3536 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Thing
- Smelting furnace, kilnBlacksmith40 verses
Meanings
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smelting furnace or kiln
A construction made of hardened clay or bricks, used for smelting ore or firing ceramic ware
ExamplesGenesis 19:28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the surrounding area; and behold, he saw the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace.
Exodus 9:8 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and Moses shall toss it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
Exodus 9:10 So they took soot from a kiln, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses tossed it toward the sky, and it became boils breaking out with sores on every person and animal.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- פִּיחַsoot 2
- עָשָׁןsmoke 1
- קִיטוֹר(thick) smoke 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- תַּנּוּר tannûwr · H8574 · oven
- Both lexemes denote heating/burning apparatus and can denote “furnace”; תַּנּוּר (tannûwr, H8574) also covers “oven,” suggesting a somewhat broader domestic use, but the two are plausible functional synonyms in the domain of heat-producing structures.
- כּוּר kûwr · H3564 · smelting furnace, kiln
- Both lexemes are glossed identically as "furnace" — two distinct Hebrew words for the same referent category, capable of substituting for each other in sense.
In the other Testament 1 word
- κάμινος káminos · G2575 · furnace, kiln
- Greek κάμινος serves as the direct translation equivalent for Hebrew כִּבְשָׁן in LXX contexts, both denoting a furnace or kiln used for smelting, baking, or burning.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Furnaces001003001001007
- The word names a furnace or kiln, a heated structure used for smelting or firing, as with the iron furnace of Egypt in Deuteronomy 4:20 and the furnace of the fiery ordeal in Daniel 3.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3536. kibshan כִּבְשָׁן noun masculine kiln, for lime or pottery (so Ki, AW; MishnaKel…
כִּבְשָׁן noun masculine kiln, for lime or pottery (so Ki, AW; MishnaKel viii. 9; √ and original meaning dubious; according to Thes as subduing, reducing its contents, compare igne ferrum domatur PlinNat. Hist. 36. 27) — always absolute; only in הַכּ ׳קִיטוֺר Gen 19:28 (J; simile of smoke of כִּכָּר, Sodom and Gomorrah); הַכּ ׳עֶשֶׁן Exo 19:18 (E; simile of smoke of Sinai); כ ׳מִּיחַ ashes of kiln Exo 9:8, compare Exo 9:10 (both P).
כדד (√ of following; Arabic is toil severely; fatigue, weary, harass, tread; mortar in which things are pounded, bruised; what remains in bottom of cooking-pot).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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