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is the rendering of two Heb. words of marked import, besides one or two in an ordinary sense.
1. ëַּéø , kir (only in the dual, ëַּéøִéַí , kira'yim, Lev_11:35, “ranges for pots”), apparently a cooking-furnace, perhaps of pottery (as it could be broken), and double (as having places for two pots or more, or, perhaps, consisting of two stoves set together). SEE OVEN; SEE POT.
2. ùְׂãֵøָä , sederah', a rank, or row, of soldiers, drawn up in cordon (“range,” 2Ki_11:8; 2Ki_11:15; 2Ch_23:14); also timbers or chambers in the stories of a building (“board,” 1Ki_6:9). SEE ATHALIAH, TEMPLE
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