Word study
Furnace
4 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “furnace”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “furnace” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- אַתּוּן attûnfurnacetranslated this way 10 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s H861Noun · Translated: furnace 10Full study and all 10 verses →
Daniel 3:6 And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.”
Daniel 3:11 and that whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.
- כּוּר kûrsmelting-pot or furnacetranslated this way 9 times of its 9 uses · Strong’s H3564Noun · Translated: furnace 9Full study and all 9 verses →
Deuteronomy 4:20 Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
1 Kings 8:51 For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.
- כִּבְשָׁן kibshânkilntranslated this way 4 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s H3536Noun · Translated: furnace 4Full study and all 4 verses →
Genesis 19:28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Exodus 9:8 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the furnace; in the sight of Pharaoh, Moses is to toss it into the air.
- תַּנּוּר tannûrstovetranslated this way 3 times of its 15 uses · Strong’s H8574Noun · Translated: oven 7, Ovens 3, furnace 2, firepot 1Full study and all 15 verses →
Psalm 21:9 You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.
Isaiah 31:9 Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Greek words (New Testament)
- κάμινος káminosa furnacetranslated this way 4 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s G2575Noun · Translated: furnace 4Full study and all 4 verses →
Matthew 13:42 And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Revelation 1:15 His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters.
- κλίβανος klíbanosan oven, furnacetranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G2823Noun · Translated: furnace 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Matthew 6:30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Luke 12:28 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!
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What the Bible says about furnace: passages by topic →
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.