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Strong's #2823: klibanos (pronounced klib'-an-os)

of uncertain derivation; an earthen pot used for baking in:--oven.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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klibanos

1) a clibanus, an earthen vessel for baking bread. It was broader at the bottom than above at the orifice, and when sufficiently heated by a fire kindled within, the dough was baked by being spread upon the outside. [But according to others, the dough was baked by being placed inside and the fire or coals outside, the vessel being perforated with small holes that the heat might better penetrate.]

2) a furnace, oven

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: of uncertain derivation




Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

Matthew 6:30: "tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you,"
Luke 12:28: "tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?"









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