Strong’s G2575 · Greek

κάμινος
káminos

Definition

a furnace

Etymology

probably from G2545 (καίω);

Where the KJV renders it

  • furnace

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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