(Tower of) the Ovens
תַּנּוּרStrong’s H8574tannur (tan-nur)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tannur is the Hebrew word usually translated “oven”, “ovens” and “like oven”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.”
Meaning
- Combined with mig.dal (מִגְדָּל "Tower" H4026I)
- Furnace, oven, fire-pot, (portable) stovefor cooking · of God's wrath, His furnace (fig) · of hunger, desire for evil · fire-pot
How it's translated
- an oven 3
- the ovens 2
- like oven 2
- a fire pot of 1
- and in ovens your 1
- in oven 1
- in an oven 1
- like a furnace of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 4
- Hosea 3
- Nehemiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- Psalms 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 8:3And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
- Leviticus 2:4And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
- Leviticus 7:9And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it.
- Leviticus 11:35And 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.
- Leviticus 26:26And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Nehemiah 3:11Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּנּוּר tannur · (Tower of) the Ovens
Combined with mig.dal (מִגְדָּל "Tower" H4026I) This name means furnace, oven
תַּנּוּר tannur · oven
1) furnace, oven, fire-pot, (portable) stove 1a) for cooking 1b) of God's wrath, His furnace (fig) 1c) of hunger, desire for evil 1d) fire-pot
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “oven” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OVEN, noun
uv'n.
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.