Oven in Easton's Bible Dictionary
Heb. tannur, (Hos. 7:4). In towns there appear to have been
public ovens. There was a street in Jerusalem (Jer.
37:21)
called "bakers' street" (the only case in which the
name of a
street in Jerusalem is preserved). The words "tower
of the
furnaces" (Neh. 3:11; 12:38) is more properly "tower
of the
ovens" (Heb. tannurim). These resemble the ovens in
use among
ourselves.
There were other private ovens of different kinds.
Some were
like large jars made of earthenware or copper, which
were heated
inside with wood (1 Kings 17:12; Isa. 44:15; Jer.
7:18) or grass
(Matt. 6:30), and when the fire had burned out,
small pieces of
dough were placed inside or spread in thin layers on
the
outside, and were thus baked. (See FURNACE
-T0001398.)
Pits were also formed for the same purposes, and
lined with
cement. These were used after the same manner.
Heated stones, or sand heated by a fire heaped over
it, and
also flat irons pans, all served as ovens for the
preparation of
bread. (See Gen. 18:6; 1 Kings 19:6.)
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