furnace
part of speech
noun (a furnace, furnaces)
meaning for a pupil
1) A furnace is a very hot enclosed fire or oven used to melt metal, make glass or burn things. tree →
2) (USA, Canada) The heater in a house that warms the air or water for the whole home. tree →
3) A very hot place: «The classroom was a furnace today». tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A furnace in the Tanakh can be a fire pit or kiln; "iron furnace" is a picture of Egypt's harsh slavery, from which God freed Israel. A furnace for melting gold and silver is also a picture of testing, and it is the fiery furnace into which Daniel's friends were thrown. Interpretation: Tradition reads the smoking furnace seen by Abraham as a sign of the hard exiles his children would suffer before being redeemed. The prophets and Proverbs read the refining furnace as God testing hearts through hardship, and the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego shows faithful people saved from the fire. In the primary lessons: In science and history lessons blast furnaces melt iron from rock to make steel, and furnaces made the Industrial Revolution possible. In North American homes, the furnace is the heating system in the basement. In the Bible, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were thrown into a fiery furnace and were not harmed. Phrases: «blast furnace», «a fiery furnace», «hot as a furnace».
examples
- And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces. (Torah GEN.15.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you handfuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of Pharaoh. (Torah EXO.9.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- But you hath the LORD taken and brought forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto Him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. (Torah DEU.4.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts. (Writings PRO.17.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction. (Prophets ISA.48.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. (Writings DAN.3.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- The iron was melted in a huge furnace. tree →
- Our furnace broke, so the house was cold all night. (USA) tree →
- Glassblowers heat the glass in a furnace. tree →
- The car was like a furnace after sitting in the sun. tree →
- In the Bible story, three men walked unharmed in the fiery furnace. tree →
- Coal kept the old furnaces burning day and night. tree →
- Never go near a furnace without an adult; it can burn you badly. tree →
- “Set me a task!” said he, with a voice like the roaring of an iron furnace. tree →
note
Countable: furnaces. In the UK a home heater is usually called a boiler; in the USA and Canada, a furnace. Pronunciation: FUR-nis. Safety: furnaces are dangerous and only for trained workers.
In the corpora
- Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.
- The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts.
- The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise.
- and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.'
- and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Trees and pragmatics
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