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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;"/><title>Topical Bible: Kiln</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/topical/k/kiln.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newtopical.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/topical/vmenus/exodus/9-8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmcde/k/kiln.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="/topical/">Topical</a> > Kiln</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/topical/k/kilmad.htm" title="Kilmad">◄</a> Kiln <a href="/topical/k/kimah.htm" title="Kimah">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">Jump to: <a href="#web" title="Webster's Dictionary">Webster's</a> • <a href="#cnc" title="Multiversion Concordance">Concordance</a> • <a href="#thes" title="Bible Thesaurus">Thesaurus</a> • <a href="#grk" title="Strong's Greek Concordance">Greek</a> • <a href="#heb" title="Strong's Hebrew Concordance">Hebrew</a> • <a href="#lib" title="Library">Library</a> • <a href="#sub" title="Subtopics">Subtopics</a> • <a href="#rel" title="Related Terms">Terms</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><a name="te" id="te"></a><div class="vheading2">Topical Encyclopedia</div>A kiln is a type of oven used for firing, drying, or baking materials, particularly clay and bricks. In biblical times, kilns were essential for producing pottery and bricks, which were crucial for daily life and construction. The use of kilns is mentioned in several passages of the Bible, highlighting their importance in ancient Near Eastern culture and economy.<br><br><b>Biblical References</b><br><br>1. <b><a href="/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3</a></b> · The construction of the Tower of Babel provides an early reference to kilns. The people said, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. This passage indicates the use of kilns for baking bricks, a process that made them more durable and suitable for large construction projects.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/exodus/1-14.htm">Exodus 1:14</a></b> · During the Israelites' bondage in Egypt, they were subjected to hard labor, including brickmaking. "They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor, the Egyptians used them<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>n.</I>) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.<p>2. (<I>n.</I>) A furnace for burning bricks; a brick kiln.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/2575.htm"><span class="l">2575. kaminos -- furnace</span></a> <br><b>...</b> furnace. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: kaminos Phonetic Spelling:<br> (kam'-ee-nos) Short Definition: a furnace Definition: a furnace, oven, <b>kiln</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2575.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/3536.htm"><span class="l">3536. kibshan -- a <b>kiln</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 3535, 3536. kibshan. 3537 . a <b>kiln</b>. Transliteration: kibshan Phonetic<br> Spelling: (kib-shawn') Short Definition: furnace. Word Origin <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3536.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4404.htm"><span class="l">4404. malben -- a brick mold, quadrangle</span></a><br><b>...</b> brick <b>kiln</b>. From laban (denominative); a brick-<b>kiln</b> -- brickkiln. see HEBREW<br> laban. 4403, 4404. malben. 4405 . Strong's Numbers. <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4404.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/1615.htm"><span class="l">1615. gir -- chalk, lime</span></a><br><b>...</b> chalkstone. Perhaps from kuwr; lime (from being burned in a <b>kiln</b>) -- chalk(-stone).<br> see HEBREW kuwr. 1614, 1615. gir. 1616 . Strong's Numbers. <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/1615.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/tertullian/_on_the_flesh_of_christ/chapter_vi_the_doctrine_of_apelles.htm"><span class="l">The Doctrine of Apelles Refuted, that Christ's Body was of <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> "Without prejudice to their denial, etc.". [7023] The Roman version of the<br> proverb is "out of the lime-<b>kiln</b> into the coal-furnace.". <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../tertullian/ on the flesh of christ/chapter vi the doctrine of apelles.htm</font><p><a href="/library/leupold/exposition_of_genesis_volume_1/chapter_xi.htm"><span class="l">Chapter xi</span></a> <br><b>...</b> statement. For more substantial buildings not the sun-dried but the<br> <b>kiln</b>-dried bricks were used, and bitumen sealed the joints. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xi.htm</font><p><a href="/library/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/israel_at_the_red_sea.htm"><span class="l">Israel at the Red Sea</span></a> <br><b>...</b> He thought he should never have seen them any more for ever; they were the plague<br> and torment of his life when they made him work in the brick-<b>kiln</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/israel at the red sea.htm</font><p><a href="/library/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/the_exodus.htm"><span class="l">The Exodus</span></a> <br><b>...</b> We must all serve in the brick-<b>kiln</b>; we must all be wearied with toiling among the<br> pots; or otherwise we could never realize that glorious verse""Though ye <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/...//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/the exodus.htm</font><p><a href="/library/lanciani/pagan_and_christian_rome/chapter_ii_pagan_shrines_and.htm"><span class="l">Pagan Shrines and Temples.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Since then the Romans have demolished it, and turned the structure into a lime-<b>kiln</b>."<br> The platform of the temple and a few fragments of its architectural <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter ii pagan shrines and.htm</font><p><a href="/library/richardson/early_christian_fathers/introduction_and_books.htm"><span class="l">Introduction and Books</span></a> <br><b>...</b> I, No. I, pp. 86 ff. Clement of Alexandria, Strom., I. 29: 182; VI. 5: 39 ff.; etc.<br> [615] H. <b>Kiln</b>, Der Ursprung des Briefes an Diognet (1882), gives the <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../richardson/early christian fathers/introduction and books.htm</font><p><a href="/library/fagg/forty_years_in_south_china/v_at_the_foot_of.htm"><span class="l">At the Foot of the Bamboos</span></a> <br><b>...</b> I inquired of him where he lived and why he came. He said he was employed<br> in burning lime at a lime-<b>kiln</b> not far off from my house. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/v at the foot of.htm</font><p><a href="/library/leupold/exposition_of_genesis_volume_1/chapter_xix.htm"><span class="l">Chapter xix</span></a> <br><b>...</b> The comparison employed to make the picture more vivid is "as the smoke of a smelting<br> furnace." Kibhshan is by some rendered "<b>kiln</b>," however KW appears to <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xix.htm</font><p><a href="/library/josephus/the_antiquities_of_the_jews/book_5_footnotes.htm"><span class="l">Book 5 Footnotes</span></a> <br><b>...</b> and took, under, or cut them with saws, and under, or with harrows of iron, and<br> under, or with axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-<b>kiln</b>, is not <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/book 5 footnotes.htm</font><p><a href="/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_3/chapter_iiichaldaean_civilization.htm"><span class="l">Chaldaean Civilization</span></a> <br><b>...</b> When the writing was finished, the scribe sent his work to the potter, who put it<br> in the <b>kiln</b> and baked it, or the writer may have had a small oven at his own <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../chapter iiichaldaean civilization.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/k/kiln.htm"><span class="l"><b>Kiln</b> (5 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for<br> the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a <b>kiln</b> for baking <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/k/kiln.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/brick-kiln.htm"><span class="l">Brick-<b>kiln</b> (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br>Brick-<b>kiln</b>. Brickkiln, Brick-<b>kiln</b>. Brickkilns . Int. Standard Bible<br> Encyclopedia BRICK-<b>KILN</b>. brik'-kil, -<b>kiln</b> (malben): The <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/brick-kiln.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/l/lime.htm"><span class="l">Lime (4 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> The Hebrew word so rendered means "boiling" or "effervescing." From Isaiah 33:12<br> it appears that lime was made in a <b>kiln</b> lighted by thorn-bushes. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/l/lime.htm - 11k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/brickkiln.htm"><span class="l">Brickkiln (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A <b>kiln</b>, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or<br> burnt; or a pile of green bricks <b>...</b> Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BRICK-<b>KILN</b>. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/brickkiln.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/furnace.htm"><span class="l">Furnace (35 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> invaded Mesopotamia. (2.) Hebrews kibshan, a smelting furnace (Genesis<br> 19:28), also a lime-<b>kiln</b> (Isaiah 33:12; Amos 2:1). (3.) Hebrews <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/furnace.htm - 22k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/brick.htm"><span class="l">Brick (10 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1. (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form,<br> usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a <b>kiln</b>, or in a heap or <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/brick.htm - 15k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/potter.htm"><span class="l">Potter (14 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> After the vessel is shaped it is dried and finally fired in a furnace or <b>kiln</b>. <b>...</b><br> In unpacking the <b>kiln</b> and storing the product others get broken. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/potter.htm - 28k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/pottery.htm"><span class="l">Pottery (11 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> After the vessel is shaped it is dried and finally fired in a furnace or <b>kiln</b>. <b>...</b><br> In unpacking the <b>kiln</b> and storing the product others get broken. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/pottery.htm - 27k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/babylonia.htm"><span class="l">Babylonia (17 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> in this alluvial plain, had to be of brick, which was largely sun-dried, although<br> in certain prosperous eras there is much evidence of <b>kiln</b>-dried bricks having <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/babylonia.htm - 75k</font><p><a href="/topical/k/kimah.htm"><span class="l">Kimah (2 Occurrences)</span></a><br><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/k/kimah.htm - 7k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://clyx.com/term/kiln.htm">Kiln: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Kiln (5 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/9-8.htm">Exodus 9:8</a></span><br />Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/9-10.htm">Exodus 9:10</a></span><br />They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/19-18.htm">Exodus 19:18</a></span><br />Mount Sinai, all it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/12-31.htm">2 Samuel 12:31</a></span><br />He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick <span class="boldtext">kiln</span>: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/nahum/3-14.htm">Nahum 3:14</a></span><br />Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. 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