861. attun

Strong's Lexicon

attun: Furnace

Original Word: אַתוּן
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: attuwn
Pronunciation: at-TOON
Phonetic Spelling: (at-toon')
Definition: Furnace
Meaning: a fire-place, furnace

Word Origin: Derived from an Aramaic root, likely related to the Hebrew word for furnace or oven.

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: The Greek equivalent often used in the Septuagint for similar contexts is κλίβανος (klibanos), Strong's Greek #2823, which also means furnace or oven.

Usage: The term "attun" is used to describe a furnace, particularly one used for smelting or burning. In the context of the Bible, it often refers to a large, industrial furnace used for intense heat processes, such as refining metals or, metaphorically, for trials and testing.

Cultural and Historical Background: In ancient Near Eastern cultures, furnaces were essential for various industrial processes, including metallurgy and pottery. They symbolized intense heat and transformation. In biblical literature, furnaces often serve as metaphors for divine judgment or purification, reflecting the cultural understanding of fire as both destructive and purifying.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
(Aramaic) of uncertain derivation
Definition
a furnace
NASB Translation
furnace (10).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אַתוּן noun masculine^{Daniel 3:19} (probably feminine^{vDaniel 3:26}) furnace (probably loan-word from Assyrian utûnu, atûnu, id., [also Tel Amarna], DHM^{VOJ 1.23} Buhl; Syriac hence Arabic as loan-word Frä²⁶; Ethiopic Di⁷⁶³; conjectures on etymology in K^{§ 59 Anm.} Lag^{BN 111}); — construct ׳א Daniel 3:6,11,15,17,20,21,23,26; emphatic אַתוּנָא Daniel 3:19,22.

אִתַי see אִיתַי.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

furnace

(Aramaic) probably from the corresponding to 'esh; probably a fire-place, i.e. Furnace -- furnace.

see HEBREW 'esh

Forms and Transliterations

אַתּ֣וּן אַתּ֥וּן אַתּ֨וּן אַתּוּן־ אתון אתון־ וְאַתּוּנָ֖א ואתונא לְאַתּ֥וּן לְאַתּוּנָ֔א לאתון לאתונא ’at·tūn ’at·tūn- ’attūn ’attūn- atTun lə’attūn lə’attūnā lə·’at·tū·nā lə·’at·tūn leatTun leattuNa veattuNa wə’attūnā wə·’at·tū·nā

Englishman's Concordance

Daniel 3:6
HEB: יִתְרְמֵ֔א לְגֽוֹא־ אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃
NAS: into the midst of a furnace of blazing
KJV: of a burning fiery furnace.
INT: be cast the midst of a furnace fire of blazing

Daniel 3:11
HEB: יִתְרְמֵ֕א לְגֽוֹא־ אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃
NAS: into the midst of a furnace of blazing
KJV: of a burning fiery furnace.
INT: shall be cast the midst of a furnace fire of blazing

Daniel 3:15
HEB: תִתְרְמ֔וֹן לְגֽוֹא־ אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּ֑א
NAS: into the midst of a furnace of blazing
KJV: fiery furnace; and who
INT: be cast the midst of a furnace fire of blazing

Daniel 3:17
HEB: לְשֵׁיזָבוּתַ֑נָא מִן־ אַתּ֨וּן נוּרָ֧א יָקִֽדְתָּ֛א
NAS: to deliver us from the furnace of blazing
KJV: fiery furnace, and
INT: to deliver from the furnace fire of blazing

Daniel 3:19
HEB: וְאָמַר֙ לְמֵזֵ֣א לְאַתּוּנָ֔א חַ֨ד־ שִׁבְעָ֔ה
NAS: to heat the furnace seven
KJV: that they should heat the furnace one
INT: giving to heat the furnace times seven

Daniel 3:20
HEB: נְג֑וֹ לְמִרְמֵ֕א לְאַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃
NAS: in order to cast [them] into the furnace of blazing
KJV: [them] into the burning fiery furnace.
INT: and Abed-nego to cast the furnace fire of blazing

Daniel 3:21
HEB: וּרְמִ֕יו לְגֽוֹא־ אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃
NAS: into the midst of the furnace of blazing
KJV: of the burning fiery furnace.
INT: and were cast the midst of the furnace fire of blazing

Daniel 3:22
HEB: מַלְכָּא֙ מַחְצְפָ֔ה וְאַתּוּנָ֖א אֵזֵ֣ה יַתִּ֑ירָא
NAS: [was] urgent and the furnace had been made
KJV: was urgent, and the furnace exceeding
INT: the king's urgent and the furnace had been made extremely

Daniel 3:23
HEB: נְפַ֛לוּ לְגֽוֹא־ אַתּוּן־ נוּרָ֥א יָֽקִדְתָּ֖א
NAS: into the midst of the furnace of blazing
KJV: of the burning fiery furnace.
INT: fell the midst of the furnace fire of blazing

Daniel 3:26
HEB: נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֗ר לִתְרַע֮ אַתּ֣וּן נוּרָ֣א יָקִֽדְתָּא֒
NAS: to the door of the furnace of blazing
KJV: fiery furnace, [and] spake,
INT: Nebuchadnezzar to the door of the furnace fire of blazing

10 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 861
10 Occurrences

’at·tūn — 7 Occ.
lə·’at·tūn — 1 Occ.
lə·’at·tū·nā — 1 Occ.
wə·’at·tū·nā — 1 Occ.