כּוּרkûwr
a pot or furnace (as if excavated)
Pronunciation: koor · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3564
Meanings
smelting-pot or furnace, pot or furnace for smelting metals, but always in metaphor or simile of human sufferings in punishment or discipline (Deuteronomy 4:20; Jeremiah 11:4; 1 Kings 8:51; Proverbs 17:3; Proverbs 27:21)
Same root
- גִּרgir · H1615lime (from being burned in a kiln)
- כּוֹר עָשָׁןKôwr ʻÂshân · H3565Cor-Ashan, a place in Palestine
- כִּיּוֹרkîyôwr · H3595properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. a chafing-dish forcoals or a caldron forcooking; hence (from similarity of form) a washbowl; also (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform
- כִּירkîyr · H3600a cooking range (consisting of two parallel stones, across which the boiler is set)
- כֹּרkôr · H3734properly, a deep round vessel, i.e. (specifically) a cor or measure for things dry
- מְכוּרָהmᵉkûwrâh · H4351origin (as if a mine)
- מְכֵרָהmᵉkêrâh · H4380a sword
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 4:20 Remember that the Lord rescued you from the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt in order to make you his very own people and his special possession, which is what you are today.
- 1 Kings 8:51 for they are your people—your special possession—whom you brought out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt.
- Proverbs 17:3 Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but the Lord tests the heart.
- Proverbs 27:21 Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but a person is tested by being praised.
- Isaiah 48:10 I have refined you, but not as silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.
- Jeremiah 11:4 For I said to your ancestors when I brought them out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt, “If you obey me and do whatever I command you, then you will be my people, and I will be your God.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).