Category:Oven

Ov"en, n. Etym: [as. ofen; akin to d. oven, ohg. ofan, ovan, g. ofen, Icel. ofn, dan. ovn, sw. ugn, goth. aúhns, gr. ukha pot.]

Defn: a place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for Baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or Portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a Chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Oven - Heb. tannur, (Hosea 7:4). In towns there appear to have been public ovens. There was a street in Jerusalem (Jeremiah 37:21) called "bakers' street" (the only case in which the name of a street in Jerusalem is preserved). The words "tower of the furnaces" (Nehemiah 3:11; Nehemiah 12:38) is more properly "tower of the ovens" (Heb. tannurim ). These resemble the ovens in use among ourselves. There were other private ovens of different kinds. Some were like large jars made of earthenware or copper, which were heated inside with wood (1 Kings 17:12; Isaiah 44:15; Jeremiah 7:18) or grass (Matthew 6:30), and when the fire had burned out, small pieces of dough were placed inside or spread in thin layers on the outside, and were thus baked. (See FURNACE.) Pits were also formed for the same purposes, and lined with cement. These were used after the same manner. Heated stones, or sand heated by a fire heaped over it, and also flat irons pans, all served as ovens for the preparation of bread. (See Genesis 18:6; 1 Kings 19:6.)