Lexical Definition

‎תַּנּוּר‎ tannûwr (tan-noor') (Tower of) the Ovens ^H:N-M
from ‎נִיר‎

furnace, oven.

• a fire-pot

1) furnace, oven, fire-pot, (portable) stove
1a) for cooking
1b) of God's wrath, His furnace (fig)
1c) of hunger, desire for evil
1d) fire-pot

See Greek: κλίβανος

Extended Information

part of: מִגְדָּל

• Combined with mig.dal (‎מ‎ִ‎ג‎ְ‎ד‎ָּ‎ל‎ "Tower" מִגְדָּל)
• This name means furnace, oven

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎תַּנּוּר‎ noun masculine^{Lev 26:26} portable stove or fire-pot (loan-word from Assyrian tinûru, id., according to DHM^{VOJ i. 23} (otherwise Dvorak^{ZK i. 155 ff.}); ‎׳‎‎ת‎, a large earthen jar, still in Syria, Wetzst^{Verhandl. d. Berl. Anthrop. Gesell., 1882, 467} Whitehouse^{Heb.Antiq.7,3} ARSK^{EB l. 605}; Arabic is loan-word from Aramaic ‎תַּנּוּרָא‎, , and this from Persian tanûra, according to Frä²⁶); — ‎׳‎‎ת‎ absolute Hos 7:4 +, construct Gen 15:17; Ps 21:10* plural ‎תַּנּוּרִים‎ Neh 3:11; Neh 12:38 — fire-pot, for baking (‎אָפָה‎) Hos 7:4 (read ‎׳‎‎בֹּעֵר הֵ֑ם אֹפֵהוּ וגו‎ ‎׳‎‎ת‎, Oort^{Th. Tijdschr. 1890, 480 ff.} Albr^{ZAW xvi (1896), 88}), compare vHos 7:6 vHos 7:7 (all in simile), Exod 7:28* (J), Lev 2:4; Lev 7:9; Lev 26:26 (P), also (breakable) Lev 11:35 ‎עָשָׁן‎ ‎׳‎‎ת‎ Gen 15:17 (JE) in vision, symbol of ‎׳‎‎י‎'s presence, compare Isa 31:9 (|| ‎אוּר‎); simile of heat Lam 5:10, of judgment Mal 3:19*, and so ‎אֵשׁ‎ ‎׳‎‎ת‎ Ps 21:10* ‎מִגְדַּל הַתַּנּוּרִים‎ Neh 3:11; Neh 12:38 a tower on wall of Jerusalem [‎תַּנְחוּם‎], ‎תַּנְחוּמוֺת‎, ‎תַּנְחֻ֫מֶת‎ see [‎נחם‎].

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