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title: כּוּר — smelting-pot · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כּוּר (3564), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: smelting-pot. BDB 1906: smelting-pot or furnace. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כּוּר

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«כּוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **smelting-pot** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 3564 · **BDB:** כּוּר

### Glosses

a.furnace (3); of.a.furnace (3); the.furnace (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

smelting-pot [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3564/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

smelting-pot or furnace [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3564/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] smelting-pot or furnace (Arabic كُور; NH id.; Aramaic id., ܟܽܘܪ; Ethiopic ከውር: )—pot or furnace for smelting metals, but alw. in metaph. or sim. of human sufferings in punishment or discipline: iron (fig. of Egypt as place of bondage) מִכּ׳ הַבַּרְזֶל Dt 4:20 Je 11:4, מִתּוֹךְ כ׳ הַבּ׳ 1 K 8:51; gold כ׳ לַזָּהָב Pr 17:3 = 27:21 (‖ מַצְרֵף); various metals Ez 22:18, 20, 22; once בְּכוּר עֹ֑נִי Is 48:10 in a smelting-pot of a affliction.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כּוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3564/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 48:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.48.10/)

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הִנֵּ֥ה צְרַפְתִּ֖יךָ וְלֹ֣א בְכָ֑סֶף בְּחַרְתִּ֖יךָ בְּכ֥וּר עֹֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* here! I have.refined.you and not (in) silver I have.chosen.you in a.furnace of.affliction

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.

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[Proverbs 17:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.3/)

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מַצְרֵ֣ף לַ֭כֶּסֶף וְכ֣וּר לַזָּהָ֑ב וּבֹחֵ֖ן לִבּ֣וֹת יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.crucible \[is\].for (the) silver and a.furnace \[is\].for (the) gold and.\[is\] testing hearts Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts.

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