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כִּבְשָׁן kibšān – kiln

Semantic Fields: Utensils   
Author(s): Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten
First published: 2025-02-05
Last update: 2026-01-06 (Paul Sanders)
Citation: Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten, כִּבְשָׁן kibšān – kiln,
               Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database (sahd-online.com), 2025 (update: 2026) (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Introduction

Grammatical type: noun masc.
Occurrences: 4x HB (4/0/0); 1x Sir; 1x Qum; 0x Inscr. (Total: 6)

  • Torah: Gen 19:28; Exod 9:8, 10; 19:18.
  • Sira: 27:5A.
  • Qumran: 1QHoda xvii:5.

Text Doubtful

A.1 Ps 68:23 (see BHKa, HALOT, 460).

1 Root and Comparative Material

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2. Formal Characteristics

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3. Syntagmatics

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4. Ancient Versions

Septuagint (LXX)

a. Septuagint (LXX) and other Greek versions (αʹ, σʹ, θʹ):

  • κάμινος, ‘furnace’: Gen 19:28; Exod 9:8, 10; 19:18; Sir 27:5.

b. Peshitta (Pesh):

  • ܐܬܘܢܐ (’attūnā), ‘furnace’: Gen 19:28; Exod 9:8, 10; 19:18.

c. Targum (Tg: O/N/PsJ/Frg/J/K)::

  • אַתוּנָא, ‘fire-place, stove’: Gen 19:28; Exod 9:8, 10; 19:18 (in TgO, TgPsJ, TgN; TgN);
  • נסופה, ‘high’: only in Gen 19:28 TgSmrA (כתננה נסופה, ‘like the high smoke’).10

d.Vulgate (Vg):11

  • caminus, ‘domestic stove or furnace’: Exod 9:8, 10.
  • fornax, ‘furnace, oven, kiln’: Gen 19:28; Exod 19:18; Sir 27:5[27:6].

  1. Tal, DSA, 535. 

  2. The translations of the Latin are based on OLD

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