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כּוּר

kur · furnace

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3564 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

kur (כּוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “furnace”.

A furnace for smelting metals. "Iron furnace" is an image of very harsh suffering.

How to say it

kur

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A closed furnace where metals are melted; the iron furnace is a picture of very harsh suffering.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Deuteronomy 4:20

    But you YHWH has taken and brought out you from the furnace of iron, from Egypt, to be a people of inheritance for him, as you are this day.

  • 1 Kings 8:51

    for they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron.

  • Proverbs 17:3

    The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the one who tests hearts is YHWH.

  • Proverbs 27:21

    The crucible for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man by the mouth of his praise.

  • Isaiah 48:10

    Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

  • Jeremiah 11:4

    which I commanded your fathers on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, saying: “Listen to my voice, and do them according to all that I command you; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you Elohim,”

  • Ezekiel 22:18

    “Son of man, the house of Israel has become to me dross; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace; dross of silver they are.”

  • Ezekiel 22:20

    As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire on it to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my fury, and I will leave you and melt you.

  • Ezekiel 22:22

    As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so you will be melted in its midst; and you will know that I, YHWH, have poured out my fury on you.”