Bible Dictionary
Oven
An oven was a vessel or built structure used for baking bread and preparing food. Ancient ovens could be fixed or portable, and were heated with wood, grass, or other fuel.
Biblical Usage
Ovens appear in passages concerning household cooking, baking, famine, and ordinary daily life. Scripture mentions fuel such as dry twigs, grass, wood, and other combustible material. The oven also appears in descriptions of severe scarcity, when one oven might serve several families, and in references to bakers’ quarters and the tower of the ovens.
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