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Oven

Holman Bible Dictionary

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A devise used for baking food, especially bread (Leviticus 2:4; Exodus 8:3 ). Ancient ovens were cylindrical structures of burnt clay two to three feet in diameter. A fire was built on pebbles in the oven bottom. Bread was baked by either placing the dough against the oven walls or upon the heated pebbles. Dried grass (Matthew 6:30; Luke 12:28 ), thorny shrubs, and animal dung were often used as fuels. See Cooking and Heating .

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Butler, Trent C. Editor. Entry for 'Oven'. Holman Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hbd/​o/oven.html. 1991.
 
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