Bible Dictionary
Kettle
A kettle was a large cooking vessel used for preparing food and sacrificial offerings. Related Hebrew terms are also translated “pot,” “caldron,” or “basket.”
Definition
A kettle was a large vessel used for cooking and for culinary or sacrificial purposes. The same Hebrew word is also translated “pot,” “caldron,” or “basket” in other passages.
Biblical Usage
Kettles were used in preparing the peace-offerings. Related uses of the word refer to pots, caldrons, or baskets in other biblical contexts.
Historical Background
The word denotes a vessel for cooking. In one context it refers to a basket used for carrying clay or bricks rather than to a cooking vessel.
Scripture References
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A large pot for cooking. The same Hebrew word (dud, “boiling”) is rendered also “pot” (Ps. 81:6), “caldron” (2 Chr. 35:13), “basket” (Jer. 24:2). It was used for preparing the peace-offerings (1 Sam. 2:13, 14).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
a vessel for culinary or sacrificial purposes. (1 Samuel 2:14) The Hebrew word is also rendered “basket” in (Jeremiah 24:2) “caldron” in (2 Chronicles 35:13) and “pot” in (Job 41:20)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>ket'-'l: In English Versions of the Bible only in 1Sa 2:14 for dudh, "a vessel for cooking." The same word in 2Ch 35:13 is rendered "caldrons," and in Job 41:20 (Hebrew 12), "pot." Ps 81:6 (Hebrew 7) (the King James Version "pots") belongs rather to another signification of the word (the Revised Version (British and American) "basket," for carrying clay or bricks).</p>