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title: כִּיר — cooking-furnace · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כִּיר (3600), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cooking-furnace. BDB 1906: cooking-furnace. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כִּיר

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«כִּיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cooking-furnace** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3600 · **BDB:** כִּיר

### Glosses

a.stove (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cooking-furnace [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3600/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

cooking-furnace [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3600/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] cooking-furnace ( Mishn. כִּירָה)—frangible, only du. כִּירַיִם Lv 11:35 (c. תַּנּוּר), perhaps as supporting two pots (Ki); 𝔊 χυτρόποδες.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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 «כִּיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3600/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.35/)

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וְ֠כֹל אֲשֶׁר־יִפֹּ֨ל מִנִּבְלָתָ֥ם ׀ עָלָיו֮ יִטְמָא֒ תַּנּ֧וּר וְכִירַ֛יִם יֻתָּ֖ץ טְמֵאִ֣ים הֵ֑ם וּטְמֵאִ֖ים יִהְי֥וּ לָכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and all that it.will.fall any of their.carcass on it it.will.be.unclean an.oven and a.stove it.will.be.broken.up \[are\].unclean they and unclean they.will.be to you

*JPS 1917:* And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

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