Strong G2575κάμινος

furnace/oven

Transliteration
kaminos
Pronunciation
kam'-ee-nos
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

Probably from G2545; a furnace: - furnace.

Detailed definition

κάμινος, -ου, ἡ
[in LXX: Gen.19:28, Exo.19:18, Isa.48:10, al. (כִּבְשָׁן, כּוּר), Dan LXX TH Dan.3:6 ff. (אַתּוּן);]
a furnace: Mat.13:42, 50, Rev.1:15 9:2.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G2575 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • furnace4

First verses

  1. Matthew 13:42
    And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
  2. Matthew 13:50
    And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
  3. Revelation 1:15
    And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
  4. Revelation 9:2
    And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
κάμῑν-ος [ᾰ], ἡ,
oven, furnace, or kiln, for smelting, baking, burning earthenware and bricks, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus “Epigrammata” 14, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.179, 4.164, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 281, 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 2.13 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, “PPetr.” 3p.141 (3rd c.BC))], etc.: plural, of Hephaestus' forge, [Refs (“Anacreontea” 27 A2;)] flue for warming a room, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.332)], compare 10.843; alcove, [LXX (LXX.Num.25.8)]: proverbial of one who ate hot dishes, κάμινος οὐκ ἄνθρωπος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Crobylus Comicus 8)]; κάμινον ἔχων ἐν τῷ πνεύμονι, of a drunkard, [Refs (“Comica Adespota” 633. (Perh. _cognate_ with καμάρα, which see))]