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title: כִּבְשָׁן — kiln · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כִּבְשָׁן (3536), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: kiln. BDB 1906: n.m. kiln. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כִּבְשָׁן

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«כִּבְשָׁן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **kiln** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 3536 · **BDB:** כִּבְשָׁן

### Glosses

kiln (3); of.a.kiln (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

kiln [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3536/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. kiln [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3536/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. kiln, for lime or pottery (so Ki, AW; MishnKel viii. 9; √ and original meaning dub.; according to Thes as subduing, reducing its contents, cf. igne ferrum domatur PlinNat. Hist. 36. 27)—always abs.; only in קִיטוֹר הַכּ׳ Gn 19:28 (J; sim. of smoke of כִּכָּר, Sodom and Gom.); עֶשֶׁן הַכּ׳ Ex 19:18 (E; sim. of smoke fo Sinai); פִּיחַ כ׳ ashes of kiln Ex 9:8, cf. v 10 (both P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כִּבְשָׁן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3536/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 19:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.19.28/)

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וַיַּשְׁקֵ֗ף עַל־פְּנֵ֤י סְדֹם֙ וַעֲמֹרָ֔ה וְעַֽל־כָּל־פְּנֵ֖י אֶ֣רֶץ הַכִּכָּ֑ר וַיַּ֗רְא וְהִנֵּ֤ה עָלָה֙ קִיטֹ֣ר הָאָ֔רֶץ כְּקִיטֹ֖ר הַכִּבְשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* and he.looked.down on the.face of.Sodom and Gomorrah and on all the.face of.the.land of the.valley and he.saw and there! it.went.up the.smoke of the.land like the.smoke of.(the) kiln

*JPS 1917:* And he looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

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[Exodus 9:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.8/)

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָה֮ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְאֶֽל־אַהֲרֹן֒ קְח֤וּ לָכֶם֙ מְלֹ֣א חָפְנֵיכֶ֔ם פִּ֖יחַ כִּבְשָׁ֑ן וּזְרָק֥וֹ מֹשֶׁ֛ה הַשָּׁמַ֖יְמָה לְעֵינֵ֥י פַרְעֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to Moses and to Aaron take (for yourselves the.fullness the.hollow.of.your.hands your soot of.a.kiln and he will.sprinkle.it Moses towards the heavens to the.eyes of.Pharaoh

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you handfuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of Pharaoh.

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