χωνευτηρίον
furnace, smelting-pot
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where χωνευτηρίον appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 4 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Kings 8:51 χωνευτηρίον for they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of iron.
- Malachi 3:2 χωνευτηρίον And who will abide the day of his coming? or who will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers.
About this word
About this word
χωνευτηρίον (chōneutēríon), “furnace, smelting-pot,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
