Lexical Summary tannur: (portable) stove, firepot Original Word: תַּנּוּרTransliteration: tannur Phonetic Spelling: (tan-noor') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: (portable) stove, firepot Meaning: (portable) stove, firepot Strong's Concordance furnace, oven From niyr; a fire-pot -- furnace, oven. see HEBREW niyr Brown-Driver-Briggs H8574. tannur תַּנּוּר noun masculineLeviticus 26:26 portable stove or fire-pot (loan-word from Assyrian tinûru, id., according to DHMVOJ i. 23 (otherwise DvorakZK i. 155 ff.); ׳ת, a large earthen jar, still in Syria, WetzstVerhandl. d. Berl. Anthrop. Gesell., 1882, 467 WhitehouseHeb.Antiq.7, 3 ARSKEB l. 605; Arabic is loan-word from Aramaic תַּנּוּרָא, , and this from Persian tanûra, according to Frä26); — ׳ת absolute Hosea 7:4 +, construct Genesis 15:17; Psalm 21:10; plural תַּנּוּרִים Nehemiah 3:11; 12:38; — fire-pot, for baking (אָפָה) Hosea 7:4 (read ׳ת וגו אֹפֵהוּ הֵ֑ם ׳בֹּעֵר, OortTh. Tijdschr. 1890, 480 ff. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 88), compare 7:6; 7:7; (all in simile), Exodus 7:28 (J), Leviticus 2:4; 7:9; 26:26 (P), also (breakable) 11:35; ׳ת עָשָׁן Genesis 15:17 (JE) in vision, symbol of ׳יs presence, compare Isaiah 31:9 ("" אוּר); simile of heat Lamentations 5:10, of judgment Malachi 3:19, and so ׳ת אֵשׁ Psalm 21:10; הַתַּנּוּרִים מִגְדַּל Nehemiah 3:11; 12:38 a tower on wall of Jerusalem [תַּנְחוּם], תַּנְחֻ֫מֶת תַּנְחוּמוֺת, see [נחם]. I. תנן (√ of following; ? akin to II. תנה in sense lament, i.e. howl). |
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