STRONGS G2823:
													
												
									    		κλίβανος, 
κλιβανου, 
ὁ (for 
κρίβανος, more common in earlier (yet 
κλίβανος in 
Herodotus 2, 92 (cf. 
Athen. 3, p. 110 c.)) and Attic Greek; see 
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 179; 
Passow, under the word 
κρίβανος; (
Winer's Grammar, 22)); 
1. a clibanus, an earthen vessel for baking bread (Hebrew 
תַּנּוּר, 
Exodus 8:3 (Exodus 7:29 in Hebrew); 
Leviticus 2:4; 
Leviticus 26:26; 
Hosea 7:4). It was broader at the bottom than above at the orifice, and when sufficiently heated by a fire kindled within, the dough was baked by being spread upon the outside (but according to others, the dough was placed inside and the fire or coals outside, the vessel being often perforated with small holes that the heat might the better penetrate; cf. Rich, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquity, under the word
clibanus; see Schol. on 
Aristophanes Acharn. 86 (iv. 2, p. 339, 20f Dindorf)). 
2. equivalent to 
ἰπνός, 
a furnace, an oven: so 
Matthew 6:30; 
Luke 12:28. 
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