Kettle

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Psalm 81:62 Chronicles 35:13Jeremiah 24:21 Samuel 2:13,14

Holman Bible Dictionary

1 Samuel 2:141 Samuel 2:12-17Leviticus 7:14Hophni And PhinehasSacrifice And Offering

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

KETTLE . 1 Samuel 2:14 only. See House, § 9 .

King James Dictionary

KET'TLE, n. A vessel of iron or other metal, with a wide mouth, usually without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liquor.

Among the Tartars, a kettle represents a family, or as many as feed from one kettle.

Among the Dutch, a battery of mortars sunk in the earth, is called a kettle.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Kettle. A vessel for culinary or sacrificial purposes. 1 Samuel 2:14. The Hebrew word is also rendered "basket" in Jeremiah 24:2, "caldron" in 2 Chronicles 35:13, and "pot" in Job 41:20.

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ket´'l  : In English Versions of the Bible only in 1 Samuel 2:14 for dūdh , "a vessel for cooking." The same word in 2 Chronicles 35:13 is rendered "caldrons," and in Job 41:20 (Hebrew 12), "pot." Psalm 81:6 (Hebrew 7) (the King James Version "pots") belongs rather to another signification of the word (the Revised Version (British and American) "basket," for carrying clay or bricks).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(דּוּד, dud, so called from boiling),'a large pot for cooking purposes (1 Samuel 2:14; elsewhere rendered "pot," Psalms 81:6; Job 41:20; "caldron," 2 Chronicles 35:13). The same term in the original also signifies " basket" (2 Kings 10:7; Jeremiah 24:2; probably Psalms 86:6). From the passage in 1 Samuel 2:13-14, it is evident that the kettle was employed for the purpose of preparing the peace-offerings, as it is said (1 Samuel 2:14), "All that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took for himself." In the various processes of cookery represented on the monuments of Egypt, we frequently see large bronze pots placed over a fire in a similar manner. (See Flesh-Pot).