Furnace
עֲלִילStrong’s H5948alil (a-lil)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Alil is the Hebrew word usually translated “crucible”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.”
Meaning
- Furnace, crucible
How it's translated
- in a crucible 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עֲלִיל alil · furnace
furnace, crucible
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “furnace” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FUR'NACE, noun
[Latin fornax, furnus, either from burning, or the sense is an arch.]
- A place where a vehement fire and heat may be made and maintained, for melting ores or metals, etc.
- In scripture, a place of cruel bondage and affliction. Deuteronomy 4:20
- Grievous afflictions by which men are tried. Ezekiel 22:18
- A place of temporal torment. Daniel 3:6
All definitions and other forms of “furnace”
- Hell; the place of endless torment. Matthew 13:42
FUR'NACE, verb transitive
To throw out sparks as a furnace
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.