Kir denotes a stove-like household fixture that becomes unclean and must be broken after contact with a carcass.

Kir is attested for a household fixture named alongside an oven in a rule requiring it to be broken when a carcass falls on it.

1. Household fixture subject to impurity rules · dominant

   In Leviticus 11:35, the masculine dual absolute form כִירַיִם occurs in the clause concerning an oven and this fixture when a carcass falls on them; the APB renders the verse with “an oven or stove shall be broken.”

   Leviticus 11:35

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Leviticus 11:35, the APB presents the fixture as “stove” alongside “oven”; That rendering identifies the verse’s overall presentation rather than a precise token-level mapping.