Dict: smith - OVEN

smith:

OVEN - O>@ - The eastern oven is of two kinds
fixed and portable. The former is found only in towns, where regular bakers are employed. kjv@Hosea:7:4) The latter ia adapted to the nomad state, it consists of a large jar made of clay, about three feet high and widening toward the bottom, with a hole for the extraction of the ashes. Each household possessed such an article, kjv@Exodus:8:3) and it was only in times of extreme dearth that the same oven sufficed for several families. kjv@Leviticus:26:26) It was heated with dry twigs and grass, kjv@Matthew:6:30) and the loaves were placed both inside and outside of it.