tanur · firepot, oven

What it means

tanur (תַּנּוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “firepot, oven”.

Small clay oven, like a brazier.

How to say it

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 clay stove for baking bread; or a burning fire.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• oven ×10
• Ovens ×3
• like a furnace ×1
• whose furnace ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×4
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Hosea×3
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 15:17

  When the sun had gone down and it was dark, look, a smoking oven and a torch of fire that passed between these pieces.

• Exodus 8:3

  The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, into the room where you sleep, and onto your bed, into the houses of your servants and among your people, into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

• Leviticus 2:4

  When you present a grain offering baked in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.

• Leviticus 7:9

  And every grain offering that is baked in the oven, and every one made in the pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest who presents it, to him.

• Leviticus 11:35

  And anything on which any of their carcasses falls will be unclean; an oven or a stove shall be broken down; they are unclean, and they shall be unclean for you.

• Leviticus 26:26

  When I break for you the staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and give back your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

• Nehemiah 3:11

  A second section Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired, and the Tower of the Ovens.

• Nehemiah 12:38

  And the second thanksgiving choir went in the opposite direction, and I went after it, and half of the people, on top of the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, as far as the Broad Wall,

• Psalms 21:9

  You will make them like a furnace of fire at the time of your presence; YHWH, in his anger, will swallow them up, and fire will devour them.

• Isaiah 31:9

  And his crag will pass away because of terror, and his princes will be dismayed at the banner, declares YHWH, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

• Lamentations 5:10

  Our skin like an oven glows because of the burning heats of hunger.

• Hosea 7:4

  All of them are adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

• Hosea 7:6

  For they have brought near their heart like an oven in their plotting; all night their baker sleeps; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

• Hosea 7:7

  All of them grow hot like an oven, and they devour their judges; all their kings have fallen; there is no one among them who calls to me.

• Malachi 4:1

  For look, the day is coming, burning like the oven; and all the insolent and all who do wickedness will be stubble; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze, says YHWH Tsevaot, so that it will not leave them root or branch.