Bible Dictionary: Kiln

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.

2. (n.) A furnace for burning bricks; a brick kiln.

Greek

2575. kaminos -- furnace
... furnace. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: kaminos Phonetic Spelling:
(kam'-ee-nos) Short Definition: a furnace Definition: a furnace, oven, kiln. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3536. kibshan -- a kiln
... 3535, 3536. kibshan. 3537 . a kiln. Transliteration: kibshan Phonetic
Spelling: (kib-shawn') Short Definition: furnace. Word Origin ...
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4404. malben -- a brick mold, quadrangle
... brick kiln. From laban (denominative); a brick-kiln -- brickkiln. see HEBREW
laban. 4403, 4404. malben. 4405 . Strong's Numbers.
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1615. gir -- chalk, lime
... chalkstone. Perhaps from kuwr; lime (from being burned in a kiln) -- chalk(-stone).
see HEBREW kuwr. 1614, 1615. gir. 1616 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

The Doctrine of Apelles Refuted, that Christ's Body was of ...
... "Without prejudice to their denial, etc.". [7023] The Roman version of the
proverb is "out of the lime-kiln into the coal-furnace.". ...
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Chapter xi
... statement. For more substantial buildings not the sun-dried but the
kiln-dried bricks were used, and bitumen sealed the joints. ...
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Israel at the Red Sea
... He thought he should never have seen them any more for ever; they were the plague
and torment of his life when they made him work in the brick-kiln. ...
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The Exodus
... We must all serve in the brick-kiln; we must all be wearied with toiling among the
pots; or otherwise we could never realize that glorious verse""Though ye ...
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Pagan Shrines and Temples.
... Since then the Romans have demolished it, and turned the structure into a lime-kiln."
The platform of the temple and a few fragments of its architectural ...
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Introduction and Books
... I, No. I, pp. 86 ff. Clement of Alexandria, Strom., I. 29: 182; VI. 5: 39 ff.; etc.
[615] H. Kiln, Der Ursprung des Briefes an Diognet (1882), gives the ...
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At the Foot of the Bamboos
... I inquired of him where he lived and why he came. He said he was employed
in burning lime at a lime-kiln not far off from my house. ...
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Chapter xix
... The comparison employed to make the picture more vivid is "as the smoke of a smelting
furnace." Kibhshan is by some rendered "kiln," however KW appears to ...
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Book 5 Footnotes
... and took, under, or cut them with saws, and under, or with harrows of iron, and
under, or with axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln, is not ...
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Chaldaean Civilization
... When the writing was finished, the scribe sent his work to the potter, who put it
in the kiln and baked it, or the writer may have had a small oven at his own ...
/.../chapter iiichaldaean civilization.htm

Thesaurus

Kiln (5 Occurrences)
... n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for
the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking ...
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Brick-kiln (3 Occurrences)
Brick-kiln. Brickkiln, Brick-kiln. Brickkilns . Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia BRICK-KILN. brik'-kil, -kiln (malben): The ...
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Lime (4 Occurrences)
... The Hebrew word so rendered means "boiling" or "effervescing." From Isaiah 33:12
it appears that lime was made in a kiln lighted by thorn-bushes. ...
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Brickkiln (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or
burnt; or a pile of green bricks ... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BRICK-KILN. ...
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Furnace (35 Occurrences)
... invaded Mesopotamia. (2.) Hebrews kibshan, a smelting furnace (Genesis
19:28), also a lime-kiln (Isaiah 33:12; Amos 2:1). (3.) Hebrews ...
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Brick (10 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form,
usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or ...
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Potter (14 Occurrences)
... After the vessel is shaped it is dried and finally fired in a furnace or kiln. ...
In unpacking the kiln and storing the product others get broken. ...
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Pottery (11 Occurrences)
... After the vessel is shaped it is dried and finally fired in a furnace or kiln. ...
In unpacking the kiln and storing the product others get broken. ...
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Babylonia (17 Occurrences)
... in this alluvial plain, had to be of brick, which was largely sun-dried, although
in certain prosperous eras there is much evidence of kiln-dried bricks having ...
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Kimah (2 Occurrences)

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Bible Concordance

Kiln (5 Occurrences)

Exodus 9:8 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
(See NAS RSV)

Exodus 9:10 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal.
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Exodus 19:18 Mount Sinai, all it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
(See RSV)

2 Samuel 12:31 He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Nahum 3:14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Subtopics

Kiln

Related Terms

Brick-kiln (3 Occurrences)

Lime (4 Occurrences)

Brickkiln (3 Occurrences)

Furnace (35 Occurrences)

Brick (10 Occurrences)

Potter (14 Occurrences)

Pottery (11 Occurrences)

Babylonia (17 Occurrences)

Kimah (2 Occurrences)