כּוּר
kûwr · koor
a pot or furnace (as if excavated)
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root meaning properly, to dig through;
a pot or furnace (as if excavated)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: furnace. Compare H3600 (כִּיר).
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
The open hand that covers that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כּוּר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
9 occurrences · 9 OT · 0 NT · 6 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the furnace4 · 44%
- furnace2 · 22%
- and the furnace2 · 22%
- thee in the furnace1 · 11%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.