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תַּנּוּר

𐤕𐤍𐤅𐤓

tannûwr

H8574 noun

SILEX Entry

Root נור to shine, to emit light or heat, to burn

Definition

A portable or fixed vessel or chamber designed for producing high heat, typically used for baking bread, roasting, or firing pottery; often a clay or metal oven, kiln, or furnace. In most biblical contexts, designates an oven used for domestic baking (especially bread) or for industrial purposes (such as firing bricks or pottery). Can occasionally refer more generally to an enclosed place of fire or intense heat.

Semantic Range

oven for baking bread, portable oven, pottery kiln, brick kiln, cooking furnace, chamber for intense heat, symbolic place of fiery ordeal or purification

Root / Etymology

From the root נור (nur), 'to shine, to be bright,' referring to the effect or presence of fire. The noun תַּנּוּר (tannûwr) specifically develops the sense of a manufactured vessel or structure for containing and controlling fire. The formation is probably of northwestern Semitic origin, with cognates found in Akkadian (tanūru), Ugaritic, and later Aramaic and Arabic.

Historical & Contextual Notes

In the biblical period, the tannûwr was usually a dome-shaped or cylindrical oven, made of clay, with an opening at the top or side; domestic ovens often stood outdoors or in courtyards, used primarily for baking bread, which was pressed to the hot inner walls. In some contexts, used for other purposes, such as roasting meat (Gen 15:17) or firing bricks (Exod 9:8, Jer 43:9-10). Symbolically, the tannûwr sometimes evokes imagery of intense heat, purification, or affliction. Though standard English translations alternate between 'oven,' 'furnace,' and 'kiln,' none fully conveys the precise design and use of the ancient near eastern tannûwr, which differs from modern ovens. Distinct from כִּבְשָׁן (kivshan), a term more specifically for a pottery or smelting kiln. In rabbinic and later periods, tannûr becomes the standard word for traditional bread-baking ovens in the Middle East — a sense rooted in, but also evolving from, the biblical usage.

Original Strong's Gloss (1890)

from נִיר; a fire-pot; furnace, oven.

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Root Family

נור (n-w-r) — shine, emit heat, burn

Strong's Lemma SIBI-P1
H4501 מְנוֹרָה the light-stand
H5135 נוּר fire

Word Forms

9 distinct forms

SIDANCE Surface Transliteration Morphology Common SIBI-P1 Occurrences
H8574-07 תַנּ֤וּר tanur HNcmsc an oven fire-oven 4
H8574-05 כְּ/תַנּ֥וּר ketanur HR/Ncmsc like an oven like a fire-oven 2
H8574-03 הַ/תַּנּוּרִֽים hatanurim HTd/Ncmpa of-the-furnaces the fire-ovens 2
H8574-04 כַּ/תַּנּ֔וּר katanur HRd/Ncmsa as an oven as the fire-oven 2
H8574-08 וּ/בְ/תַנּוּרֶ֖י/ךָ uvetanureykha HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp2ms and into your ovens and in your fire-ovens 1
H8574-02 בְּ/תַנּ֣וּר betanur HR/Ncmsa in one oven in a fire-oven 1
H8574-09 וְ/תַנּ֥וּר vetanur HC/Ncmsa and furnace fire-oven 1
H8574-06 כַ/תַּנּ֛וּר khatanur HRd/Ncmsa like an oven like a fire-oven 1
H8574-01 בַּ/תַּנּ֔וּר batanur HRd/Ncmsa in the oven in the fire-oven 1

Occurrences in Scripture

15 total occurrences

SIDANCE Reference Word Transliteration Morphology Common SIBI-P1
H8574-07 Genesis 15:17 תַנּ֤וּר tanur HNcmsc furnace fire-oven
H8574-08 Exodus 7:28 וּ/בְ/תַנּוּרֶ֖י/ךָ uvetanureykha HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp2ms and into your ovens and in your fire-ovens
H8574-07 Leviticus 2:4 תַנּ֑וּר tanur HNcmsa in an oven fire-oven
H8574-01 Leviticus 7:9 בַּ/תַּנּ֔וּר batanur HRd/Ncmsa in the oven in the fire-oven
H8574-07 Leviticus 11:35 תַּנּ֧וּר tanur HNcmsa oven fire-oven
H8574-02 Leviticus 26:26 בְּ/תַנּ֣וּר betanur HR/Ncmsa in one oven in a fire-oven
H8574-09 Isaiah 31:9 וְ/תַנּ֥וּר vetanur HC/Ncmsa and furnace fire-oven
H8574-07 Hosea 7:4 תַנּ֔וּר tanur HNcmsa an oven fire-oven
H8574-06 Hosea 7:6 כַ/תַּנּ֛וּר khatanur HRd/Ncmsa like an oven like a fire-oven
H8574-04 Hosea 7:7 כַּ/תַּנּ֔וּר katanur HRd/Ncmsa as an oven as the fire-oven
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