Strong’s H3600 · Hebrew

כִּיר
kîyr
keer

Definition

a cooking range (consisting of two parallel stones, across which the boiler is set)

Etymology

a form for H3564 (כּוּר) (only in the dual);

Where the KJV renders it

  • ranges for pots

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew 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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