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kuwr: Furnace

Original Word: כּוּר
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Transliteration: kuwr
Pronunciation: koor
Phonetic Spelling: (koor)
KJV: furnace
Word Origin: [from an unused root meaning properly, to dig through]

1. a pot or furnace (as if excavated)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
furnace

From an unused root meaning properly, to dig through; a pot or furnace (as if excavated) -- furnace. Compare kiyr.

see HEBREW kiyr

Brown-Driver-Briggs
כּוּר noun [masculine] smelting-pot or furnace (Arabic ; Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic id., ; Ethiopic ) — pot or furnace for smelting metals, but always in metaphor or simile of human sufferings in punishment or discipline: iron (figurative of Egypt as place of bondage) הַבַּרְזֶל ׳מִכּ Deuteronomy 4:20; Jeremiah 11:4, ׳הַבּ ׳מִתּוֺךְ כ 1 Kings 8:51; gold לַזָּהָב ׳כ Proverbs 17:3 = Proverbs 27:21 ("" מַצְרֵף); various metals Ezekiel 22:18,20,22; once בְּכוּר עֹ֑נִי Isaiah 48:10 in a smelting-pot of affliction.

Forms and Transliterations
בְּכ֥וּר בכור וְכ֣וּר וכור כּ֔וּר כּ֥וּר כור מִכּ֥וּר מִכּ֨וּר מכור bə·ḵūr beChur bəḵūr kur kūr mik·kūr mikKur mikkūr veChur wə·ḵūr wəḵūr
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Deuteronomy 4:20
HEB: וַיּוֹצִ֥א אֶתְכֶ֛ם מִכּ֥וּר הַבַּרְזֶ֖ל מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם
NAS: you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt,
KJV: out of the iron furnace, [even] out of Egypt,
INT: the LORD and brought furnace of the iron Egypt

1 Kings 8:51
HEB: מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם מִתּ֖וֹךְ כּ֥וּר הַבַּרְזֶֽל׃
NAS: from the midst of the iron furnace),
KJV: from the midst of the furnace of iron:
INT: Egypt the midst of the furnace of the iron

Proverbs 17:3
HEB: מַצְרֵ֣ף לַ֭כֶּסֶף וְכ֣וּר לַזָּהָ֑ב וּבֹחֵ֖ן
NAS: is for silver and the furnace for gold,
KJV: [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold:
INT: the refining silver and the furnace gold tests

Proverbs 27:21
HEB: מַצְרֵ֣ף לַ֭כֶּסֶף וְכ֣וּר לַזָּהָ֑ב וְ֝אִ֗ישׁ
NAS: is for silver and the furnace for gold,
KJV: for silver, and the furnace for gold;
INT: the crucible silver and the furnace gold and each

Isaiah 48:10
HEB: בְכָ֑סֶף בְּחַרְתִּ֖יךָ בְּכ֥וּר עֹֽנִי׃
NAS: I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
KJV: I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
INT: silver have tested the furnace of affliction

Jeremiah 11:4
HEB: מֵאֶֽרֶץ־ מִצְרַיִם֩ מִכּ֨וּר הַבַּרְזֶ֜ל לֵאמֹ֗ר
NAS: from the iron furnace, saying,
KJV: from the iron furnace, saying,
INT: of the land of Egypt furnace the iron saying

Ezekiel 22:18
HEB: וְעוֹפֶ֙רֶת֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ כּ֔וּר סִגִ֥ים כֶּ֖סֶף
NAS: and lead in the furnace; they are the dross
KJV: in the midst of the furnace; they are [even] the dross
INT: and lead the midst the furnace dross of silver

Ezekiel 22:20
HEB: אֶל־ תּ֣וֹךְ כּ֔וּר לָפַֽחַת־ עָלָ֥יו
NAS: and tin into the furnace to blow
KJV: into the midst of the furnace, to blow
INT: into the midst the furnace to blow and

Ezekiel 22:22
HEB: כֶּ֙סֶף֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ כּ֔וּר כֵּ֖ן תֻּתְּכ֣וּ
NAS: is melted in the furnace, so
KJV: in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted
INT: silver the midst the furnace so will be melted

9 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 3564
9 Occurrences


bə·ḵūr — 1 Occ.
kūr — 4 Occ.
mik·kūr — 2 Occ.
wə·ḵūr — 2 Occ.

3563b
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