1. furnace, smelting pot — The noun kur (כּוּר) meaning 'furnace, smelting furnace' — a vessel or installation used for refining metals, frequently used both literally and as a metaphor for affliction and testing. Appears in Deut 4:20, 1 Kgs 8:51, Jer 11:4 (Egypt as an iron furnace), Prov 17:3, 27:21 (crucible for refining silver/gold), Isa 48:10 (furnace of affliction), and Ezek 22:18,20,22 (Jerusalem as a smelting furnace). English renders as furnace; Spanish horno; Hindi भट्ठी (bhatthi) 'kiln/furnace'; Arabic كُور (kur) 'furnace/bellows'; Korean 용광로 (yonggwangro) 'smelting furnace' / 풀무 (pulmu) 'bellows'; Swahili tanuru 'furnace.' Both clusters express the same noun — the second simply has prepositional prefixes (in/from the furnace of), not a different meaning. 9×
AR["فِي-كُورِ","كُورٍ","كُورِ","مِنْ-كُورِ","وَ-كورٌ","وَ-كُورٌ"]·ben["-উনুনে-","-চুল্লি-থেকে-","এবং-উনুন","এবং-স্বর্ণের-চুল্লি","চুল্লি","চুল্লি-থেকে","চুল্লির"]·DE["[בכור]","[וכור]","[כור]","[מכור]","furnace-von","von-furnace-von"]·EN["and-a-furnace","and-furnace","from-furnace-of","from-the-furnace-of","furnace","furnace-of","in-the-furnace-of"]·FR["[בכור]","[כור]","[מכור]","de-furnace-de","et-וכור","furnace-de"]·heb["ב-כור","ו-כור","כור","מ-כור"]·HI["-भट्ठी-से","और-भट्टी","और-भट्ठी","भट्टी","भट्ठी","भट्ठी-में","भट्ठी-से"]·ID["dalam-dapur-pelebur","dan-dapur-pelebur","dapur","dapur-peleburan","dari-dapur","dari-dapur-peleburan"]·IT["[בכור]","[כור]","[מכור]","da-furnace-di","e-e-furnace","e-e-un-furnace","furnace-di"]·jav["ing-pawon","lan-prapen","pawon","pawon-panyuran","saking-pawon","saking-prapen"]·KO["그리고-풀무가","에서-용광로","용광로","용광로-에서","용광로의","풀무-속에서-","풀무는"]·PT["de-cadinho-de","de-fornalha-de","e-fornalha","fornalha-de","forno","no-forno-de"]·RU["в-горниле","и-горн","и-горнило","из-печи","печи","чтобы-раздуть"]·ES["de-horno-de","del-horno-de","en-horno-de","horno","horno-de","y-horno"]·SW["katika-tanuru-ya","kutoka-tanuru","kutoka-tanuru-ya","na-tanuru","tanuru"]·TR["firininda-","fırından-","fırının","fırınından-","ve-fırın"]·urd["-بھٹی-سے","اور-بھٹی","بھٹی","بھٹی-سے","بھٹی-میں","بھٹی-کے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† כּוּר n.[m.] smelting-pot or furnace (Arabic كُور; NH id.; Aramaic id., ܟܽܘܪ; Ethiopic ከውር: )—pot or furnace for smelting metals, but alw. in metaph. or sim. of human sufferings in punishment or discipline: iron (fig. of Egypt as place of bondage) מִכּ׳ הַבַּרְזֶל Dt 4:20 Je 11:4, מִתּוֹךְ כ׳ הַבּ׳ 1 K 8:51; gold כ׳ לַזָּהָב Pr 17:3 = 27:21 (‖ מַצְרֵף); various metals Ez 22:18, 20, 22; once בְּכוּר עֹ֑נִי Is 48:10 in a smelting-pot of a affliction.