Stove
כִּירStrong’s H3600kir
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kir is the Hebrew word usually translated “stove”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.”
Meaning
- Stove, range, cooking furnace
How it's translated
- and a stove 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
כִּיר kir · stove
stove, range, cooking furnace
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stove” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STOVE, noun
[G., a bagnio or hot house; a room; a stove This primarily is merely a room, a place. See Stow.]
- A hot house; a house or room artificially warmed.
- A small box with an iron pan, used for holding coals to warm the feet.
- An iron box, with various apartments in it for cooking; a culinary utensil of various forms.
All definitions and other forms of “stove”
STOVE, verb transitive
To keep warm in a house or room by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees and myrtles.
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.