BDB3960 [H3564]

כּוּר noun [masculine] smelting-pot or furnace (Arabic ; Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic id., ; Ethiopic ) — pot or furnace for smelting metals, but always in metaphor or simile of human sufferings in punishment or discipline: iron (figurative of Egypt as place of bondage) הַבַּרְזֶל ׳מִכּ Deut 4:20; Jer 11:4, ׳הַבּ ׳מִתּוֺךְ כ 1Kgs 8:51 gold לַזָּהָב ׳כ Prov 17:3 = Prov 27:21 (|| מַצְרֵף); various metals Ezek 22:18; Ezek 22:20; Ezek 22:22 once בְּכוּר עֹ֑נִי Isa 48:10 in a smelting-pot of affliction.

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