tan.nur denotes an oven, used for baking, intense heat imagery, and the name of a tower.

The term most often occurs in images of burning heat or fire, including a smoking object, heated comparison, and furnace-like language; it also names an oven used in baking and offerings, and appears in the plural within the name of a tower.

1. Oven in imagery of heat and fire · dominant

   In Genesis 15:17 the singular construct form occurs in the scene that the APB renders as “a smoking oven and a torch of fire.” Hosea 7:4, Hosea 7:6, and Hosea 7:7 compare adulterers, their heart, and their heat to an oven; Isaiah 31:9 uses furnace language alongside flame, while Lamentations 5:10 compares skin made warm by famine to an oven.

   Genesis 15:17Hosea 7:4Hosea 7:6Hosea 7:7Isaiah 31:9Lamentations 5:10
2. Oven used for baking or baked offerings · common

   The singular absolute form identifies an oven in regulations concerning an unclean oven or stove in Leviticus 11:35, bread baked by ten women in Leviticus 26:26, baked grain food in Leviticus 2:4, and offerings baked in an oven in Leviticus 7:9.

   Leviticus 11:35Leviticus 26:26Leviticus 2:4Leviticus 7:9
3. Plural in a tower name · occasional

   The plural absolute form occurs in Nehemiah 3:11 and Nehemiah 12:38 in the designation that the APB renders “the tower of the ovens.” In these clauses it identifies a tower along the wall rather than an individual baking vessel.

   Nehemiah 3:11Nehemiah 12:38

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the term as “oven” in baking and heat comparisons, but uses “furnace” in Isaiah 31:9 and “tower of the ovens” in Nehemiah 3:11 and Nehemiah 12:38. Psalm 21:10 contains the form, but the supplied APB wording does not visibly isolate its contribution.