HebrewH8574Noun (Masculine)

תַּנּוּר

tan.nur

12Occurrences
H8574Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a fire-pot

from H5216 (נִיר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Combined with mig.dal (*מִגְדָּל *"Tower" H4026I) This name means furnace, oven

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

תַּנּוּר appears 12 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Leviticus
4
Hosea
3
Nehemiah
2
Genesis
1
Isaiah
1
Lamentations
1

Key Passages

Genesis 15:17BSB

When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

Hosea 7:6BSB

For they prepare their heart like an ovenwhile they lie in wait;all night their anger smolders;in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Isaiah 31:9BSB

Their rock will pass away for fear,and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,”declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion,whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Leviticus 11:35BSB

Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

Leviticus 26:26BSB

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.