Kiln
כִּבְשָׁןStrong’s H3536kivshan (kiv-shan)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kivshan is the Hebrew word usually translated “furnace”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.”
Meaning
- Kiln (pottery or lime), smelting forge, furnace
How it's translated
- furnace 2
- a furnace 1
- the furnace 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- Genesis 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 9:8And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
- Exodus 9:10And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
- Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Hebrew dictionary
כִּבְשָׁן kivshan · kiln
kiln (pottery or lime), smelting forge, furnace
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “kiln” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
KILN, noun
kil.
- A large stove or oven; a fabric of brick or stone which may be heated for the purpose of hardening, burning or drying any thing; as a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain or meal.
- A pile of brick constructed for burning or hardening; called also a brick-kiln.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.