Lexical Definition

‎כִּבְשָׁן‎ kibshân (kib-shawn') kiln ^H:N-M
from ‎כָּבַשׁ‎

furnace.

• a smelting furnace (as reducing metals)

1) kiln (pottery or lime), smelting forge, furnace

See Greek: κάμινος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כִּבְשָׁן‎ noun masculine kiln, for lime or pottery (so Ki, AW; Mishna^{Kel viii. 9}; √ and original meaning dubious; according to Thes as subduing, reducing its contents, compare igne ferrum domatur Plin^{Nat. Hist. 36. 27}) — always absolute; only in ‎׳‎‎קִיטוֺר הַכּ‎ Gen 19:28 (J; simile of smoke of ‎כִּכָּר‎, Sodom and Gomorrah); ‎׳‎‎עֶשֶׁן הַכּ‎ Exod 19:18 (E; simile of smoke of Sinai); ‎׳‎‎פִּיחַ כ‎ ashes of kiln Exod 9:8, compare vExod 9:10 (both P).

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