תַּנּוּר
tannûwr · tan-noor'
a fire-pot
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5216 (נִיר);
a fire-pot
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: furnace, oven.
Letters
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- 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 mark, the covenant sign › the seed, life continuing › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
The mark, the covenant sign of the seed, life continuing that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of תַּנּוּר 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
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- as an oven3 · 20%
- in the oven2 · 13%
- oven2 · 13%
- of the furnaces2 · 13%
- like an oven2 · 13%
- furnace1 · 7%
- and into thine ovens1 · 7%
- whether it be oven1 · 7%
- and his furnace1 · 7%
Where it is used, by book.
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.