H0254 H0254
fire-pot, brasier (a portable container for burning coals)
A portable fire-pot or brasier used for heating, appearing only in Jeremiah 36 during the winter scene where King Jehoiakim burns the scroll containing Jeremiah's prophecies. The word is a loan from Egyptian, reflecting the common cultural exchange of household items in the ancient Near East. The narrative emphasizes the burning fire within this container, which the king uses to destroy God's word piece by piece.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The term appears exclusively in the dramatic account where the king sits before a burning brasier in his winter quarters. As each section of Jeremiah's scroll is read, Jehoiakim cuts it off and throws it into the fire-pot until the entire scroll is consumed. The repeated references to 'the fire that was on/in the fire-pot' underscore both the literal warmth it provided and its tragic role as an instrument of defiance against divine warning. 3×
AR["الْمَوْقِدَ", "الْمَوْقِدِ"]·ben["আগুনের-পাত্র", "আগুনের-পাত্রের"]·DE["[האח]"]·EN["the-firepot"]·FR["le-foyer"]·heb["ה-אח"]·HI["अँगीठी"]·ID["anglo"]·IT["ah"]·jav["perapian"]·KO["화로", "화로가"]·PT["o-braseiro"]·RU["жаровне", "жаровня"]·ES["el-brasero"]·SW["jiko"]·TR["mangal-", "mangalda"]·urd["انگیٹھی"]
Related Senses
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. אָח n.f. fire-pot, brasier (Arabic وَلَدًا, in Thes, is an error fire-pot is loan-word from Egyptian ʿḫ according to WMMOLZ 3, 51) always c. art. Je 36:22 הַא׳ לְפָנָיו מְבֹעָ֑רֶת the brasier before him was burning; v 23 הָאֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר אֶל־הָא׳; v 23 הָאֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר עַל־הָא׳ (i. אָח, brother v. sub אחה; iii. אָח interj., p. 25).