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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8574

תַּנּוּר

tannurtan-noor'

(Tower of) the Ovens

15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: tannûwr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8574is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 15
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8574

a fire-pot

The King James renders it: furnace, oven.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

tannur is rendered "(Tower of) the Ovens". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:17When 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.
  • The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.

The first use

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.

Genesis 15:17תַנּ֤וּר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Four of the word's fifteen uses are in Leviticus.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • an oven3
  • like the oven2
  • the ovens2
  • a fire pot of1
  • and an oven1
  • and in ovens your1
  • in an oven1
  • in the oven1
  • like a furnace of1
  • like an oven1
  • like the furnace1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

תַּנִּיןtanninjackalUses28
תַּנְחוּםtanchumconsolationUses5
תַּנְשֶׁמֶתtanshemethchameleonUses3
תַּנָּהtannahdragonUsesnot recorded

All 15, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

15 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • בְּתַנּ֣וּר1
  • בַּתַּנּ֔וּר1
  • הַתַּנּוּרִ֔ים1
  • הַתַּנּוּרִֽים׃ ס1
  • וּבְתַנּוּרֶ֖יךָ1
  • וְתַנּ֥וּר1
  • כְּתַנּ֥וּר1
  • כְּתַנּ֣וּר1
  • כַתַּנּ֛וּר1
  • כַּתַּנּ֔וּר1
  • כַּתַּנּ֑וּר1
  • תַנּ֤וּר1

and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular4HRd/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural2HTd/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp2ms
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc

Genesis

one use
  • 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.

    Genesis 15:17

    • תַנּ֤וּרtanurnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a fire pot of

Exodus

one use
  • The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

    Exodus 8:3

    • וּבְתַנּוּרֶ֖יךָuvetanureikhaconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and in ovens your

Leviticus

four uses
  • Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.

    Leviticus 2:4

    • תַנּ֑וּרtanurnoun · masculine singulartagged: an oven
  • Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it,

    Leviticus 7:9

    • בַּתַּנּ֔וּרbatanurpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the oven
  • 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 11:35

    • תַּנּ֧וּרtanurnoun · masculine singulartagged: an oven
  • 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.

    Leviticus 26:26

    • בְּתַנּ֣וּרbetanurpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in an oven

Nehemiah

two uses
  • Malchijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-moab repaired another section, as well as the Tower of the Ovens.

    Nehemiah 3:11

    • הַתַּנּוּרִֽים׃ סhatanurimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the ovens
  • The second thanksgiving choir proceeded to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,

    Nehemiah 12:38

    • הַתַּנּוּרִ֔יםhatanurimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the ovens

Psalms

one use
  • You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

    Psalms 21:9

    • כְּתַנּ֥וּרketanurpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like a furnace of

Isaiah

one use
  • 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.

    Isaiah 31:9

    • וְתַנּ֥וּרvetanurconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and an oven

Lamentations

one use
  • Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

    Lamentations 5:10

    • כְּתַנּ֣וּרketanurpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like an oven

Hosea

three uses
  • They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

    Hosea 7:4

    • תַנּ֔וּרtanurnoun · masculine singulartagged: an oven
  • For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

    Hosea 7:6

    • כַתַּנּ֛וּרkhatanurpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the oven
  • All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.

    Hosea 7:7

    • כַּתַּנּ֔וּרkatanurpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the oven

Malachi

one use
  • “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

    Malachi 4:1

    • כַּתַּנּ֑וּרkatanurpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the furnace

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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