תַּנּוּר
tannûwr · H8574 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences
Thing
- OvenHousehold17 verses
Meanings
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an oven
A structure made of clay or brick in which fuel such as charcoal, wood, or dried grass is burned for baking, associated with extreme heat and hence with anger and punishment
ExamplesGenesis 15:17 Now it came about, when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, a smoking oven and a flaming torch appeared which passed between these pieces.
Exodus 8:3 “The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house, and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
Leviticus 2:4 ‘Now when you bring an offering of a grain offering baked in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.
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Tower of the Ovens
A tower in the outer wall of Jerusalem
ExamplesNehemiah 3:11 Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and the Tower of Furnaces.
Nehemiah 12:38 The second choir proceeded to the left, while I followed them with half of the people on the wall, above the Tower of Furnaces, to the Broad Wall,
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- עָשָׁןsmoke 1
- אֵשׁfire 1
- ךָyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- בָּעַרto burn, to purge 1
- אֶחָדone 1
- עָבַרto pass 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַץto tear down 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםJerusalem 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֵבheart, mind 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 3 groups
- כlike/as 9
- בin/on/with 5
- כְּמוֹas, like 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִגְדָּלtower 2
- מַאֲפֶהsomething baked 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 3 words
- אָח ʼâch · H254 · brother, half-brother, cousin
- Both lexemes denote heat-producing installations for cooking/burning and genuinely overlap in sense (both are types of furnaces/ovens, with "hearth" being a specific variety).
- כִּבְשָׁן kibshân · H3536 · smelting furnace, kiln
- 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 denote heat-containing structures used for baking, smelting, or refining—genuine same-language near-synonyms that could contextually substitute.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Furnaces001003001001007
- This noun denotes an oven used for baking, as in Leviticus 2:4's instruction concerning a grain offering baked in an oven.
- Names of Constructions003001003
- This domain reflects a further sense of this word naming a specific built structure, found elsewhere in this word's range of occurrences rather than being illustrated by the citations sampled here.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8574. tannur תַּנּוּר noun masculineLev 26:26 portable stove or fire-pot (loan-word from…
תַּנּוּר noun masculineLev 26:26 portable stove or fire-pot (loan-word from Assyrian tinûru, id., according to DHMVOJ i. 23 (otherwise DvorakZK i. 155 ff.); ׳ת, a large earthen jar, still in Syria, WetzstVerhandl. d. Berl. Anthrop. Gesell., 1882, 467 WhitehouseHeb.Antiq.7, 3 ARSKEB l. 605; Arabic is loan-word from Aramaic תַּנּוּרָא, , and this from Persian tanûra, according to Frä26); — ׳ת absolute Hos 7:4 +, construct Gen 15:17; Psa 21:10; plural תַּנּוּרִים Neh 3:11; Neh 12:38; — fire-pot, for baking (אָפָה) Hos 7:4 (read ׳ת וגו אֹפֵהוּ הֵ֑ם ׳בֹּעֵר, OortTh. Tijdschr. 1890, 480 ff. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 88), compare Hos 7:6; Hos 7:7; (all in simile), Exodus 7:28 (J), Lev 2:4; Lev 7:9; Lev 26:26 (P), also (breakable) Lev 11:35; ׳ת עָשָׁן Gen 15:17 (JE) in vision, symbol of ׳יs presence, compare Isa 31:9 (|| אוּר); simile of heat Lam 5:10, of judgment Malachi 3:19, and so ׳ת אֵשׁ Psa 21:10; הַתַּנּוּרִים מִגְדַּל Neh 3:11; Neh 12:38 a tower on wall of Jerusalem
[תַּנְחוּם], תַּנְחֻ֫מֶת תַּנְחוּמוֺת, see [נחם].
I. תנן (√ of following; ? akin to II. תנה in sense lament, i.e. howl).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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