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OVEN

A small cooking device (Exod. 8:3[MT 7:28]; Lev. 11:35) employed to bake various kinds of bread (2:4; 7:9; 26:26). Cylindrical in shape, the most common ovens (Heb. tannûr) were made of clay and could be embedded in the ground or raised above it. The oven floor was lined with pebbles, on which the fire was built. Bread dough was placed on the hot stones or against the wall of the oven to cook. Fuels included dry grass (Matt. 6:30; Luke 12:28) and cakes of animal dung (cf. Ezek. 4:12, 15). Commercial bakers may have lived in a specific area of a city (cf. Neh. 3:11; 12:38).

For Abraham, a portable, smoking oven was a sign of the Lord’s presence (Gen. 15:17; NRSV “fire pot”). An oven blazing with fire was seen as a symbol of the wrath of the Lord (Ps. 21:9[10]; Isa. 31:9; NRSV “furnace”; Mal. 4:1[3:19]; cf. Lam. 5:10). The wicked are also likened to an oven burning with desire, evil deeds, and treason (Hos. 7:4, 6-7).

Stephen J. Andrews

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OVEN

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)