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title: תַּנּוּר — stove · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תַּנּוּר (8574), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: stove. BDB 1906: n.m. stove fire-pot. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תַּנּוּר

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«תַּנּוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stove** — 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:** 15 times · **Key:** 8574 · **BDB:** תַּנּוּר

### Glosses

an.oven (5); oven (4); the.ovens (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stove [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8574/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. stove fire-pot [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8574/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 26:26 portable stove or fire-pot (loan-word form Assyrian tinûru, id., according to DHMVOJ i. 23 (otherwise DvořákZK i. 155 ff.); ת׳, a large earthen jar, still in Syria, WetzstVerhandl. d. Berl. Anthrop. Gesell., 1882, 467 WhitehouseHeb. Antiq. 7, 3 ARSKEB i. 605; Arabic تَنُّورٌ is loan-word from Aramaic תַּנּוּרָא, ܬܰܢܽܘܪܳܐ, and this from Pers. tanûra, according to Frä26);—ת׳ abs. Ho 7:4 +, cstr. Gn 15:17 ψ 21:10; pl. תַּנּוּרִים Ne 3:11; 12:38;—fire-pot, for baking (אָפָה) Ho 7:4 (read ת׳ בֹּעֵר הֵ֑ם אֹפֵהוּ וגו׳, OortTh Tijdschr. 1890, 480 ff. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 88), cf. v 6, 7 (all in sim.), Ex 7:28 (J), Lv 2:4; 7:9; 26:26 (P), also (breakable) 11:35; ת׳ עָשָׁן Gn 15:17 (JE) in vision, symbol of י׳’s presence, cf.Is 31:9 (‖ אוּר); sim. of heat La 5:10, of judgment Mal 3:19 and so ת׳ אֵשׁ ψ 21:10; מִגְדַּל הַתַּנּוּרִים Ne 3:11; 12:38 a tower on wall of Jerus.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תַּנּוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8574/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 5:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.10/)

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עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב׃

*Word for word:* skin our like an.oven they.have.grown.hot because of \[the\].burning.heat(s) of.hunger

*JPS 1917:* Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

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[Hosea 7:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.4/)

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כֻּלָּם֙ מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים כְּמ֣וֹ תַנּ֔וּר בֹּעֵ֖רָה מֵֽאֹפֶ֑ה יִשְׁבּ֣וֹת מֵעִ֔יר מִלּ֥וּשׁ בָּצֵ֖ק עַד־חֻמְצָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* of.them all \[are\].adulterers like an.oven \[which\].burns from a.baker \[who\].he.ceases stirring.up from kneading \[the\].dough until it is.leavened

*JPS 1917:* They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.

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