כִּבְשָׁן
kivshan · furnace
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3536 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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kivshan (כִּבְשָׁן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “furnace”.
Large furnace, like one for smelting metal or firing bricks.
How to say it
kiv·shan
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
- A great oven for firing lime or bricks.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- furnace ×2
- kiln ×2
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 19:28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain, and he saw, and look, the smoke of the land was going up like the smoke of a furnace.
- Exodus 9:8
YHWH said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
- Exodus 9:10
So they took the soot of the kiln and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw it toward the sky, and it became boils with blisters breaking out on people and on animals.
- Exodus 19:18
Mount Sinai was smoking, all of it, because YHWH had come down upon it in fire; and its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.