כּוּר
kur (H3564)
furnace
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word H3564 (kur) is a noun that references a specific type of oven or furnace. Its primary definition indicates a high-temperature device used for burning or smelting, similar to a kiln or a smith's forge. This term appears 9 times in the Hebrew Bible, suggesting its significance in various contexts. Given its association with intense heat, it's likely that kur is used to convey concepts of transformation, purification, or even destruction, depending on the situation. In contrast to other, more general terms for fire or heat, "kur" offers a more specialized meaning that emphasizes the contained, controlled environment of a furnace.
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But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’ ”