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

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.”
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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).