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Hearth
Heb. ah (Jer. 36:22, 23; R.V., “brazier”), meaning a large pot like a brazier, a portable furnace in which fire was kept in the king’s winter apartment.
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Heb. kiyor (Zech. 12:6; R.V., “pan”), a fire-pan.
Heb. moqed (Ps. 102:3; R.V., “fire-brand”), properly a fagot.
Heb. yaqud (Isa. 30:14), a burning mass on a hearth.
Also from Smith's (1884) +−
One way of baking much practiced in the East is to place the dough on an iron plate, either laid on or supported on legs above the vessel sunk in the ground, which forms the oven. The cakes baked “on the hearth” (Genesis 18:6) were probably baked in the existing Bedouin manner, on hot stones covered with ashes. The “hearth” of King Jehoiakim’s winter palace, (Jeremiah 36:23) was possibly a pan or brazier of charcoal. From this we see that the significance of the Hebrew words translated hearth is not the same as with us.
In the Bible
10
Verses where Hearth is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- Ezekiel 43:15
The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.
- Ezekiel 43:16
The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.
- Genesis 18:6
So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
- Isaiah 29:2
And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.
- Isaiah 30:14
It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
- Jeremiah 36:22
Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.
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Scripture on Hearth
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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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