Easton's Bible Dictionary Hebrews ah (Jeremiah 36:22, 23; R.V., "brazier"), meaning a large pot like a brazier, a portable furnace in which fire was kept in the king's winter apartment. Hebrews kiyor (Zechariah 12:6; R.V., "pan"), a fire-pan. Hebrews moqed (Psalm 102:3; R.V., "fire-brand"), properly a fagot. Hebrews yaqud (Isaiah 30:14), a burning mass on a hearth. Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. 2. (n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. 3. (n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia HEARTH harth: Occurs 7 times in the King James Version: Genesis 18:6 Psalm 102:3 Isaiah 30:14 Jeremiah 36:22, 23 bis; Zechariah 12:6; Zechariah 4 times in the Revised Version: Leviticus 6:9 Isaiah 30:14 Ezekiel 43:15, 16 ("altar hearth"); compare also Isaiah 29:1 the Revised Version margin. It will be noted that the renderings of the two versions agree in only one passage (Isaiah 30:14). (1) The hearth in case of a tent was nothing more than a depression in the ground in which fire was kindled for cooking or for warmth. Cakes were baked, after the fashion of Genesis 18:6, in the ashes or upon hot stones. In this passage, however, there is nothing in the Hebrew corresponding to the King James Version "on the hearth." In the poorer class of houses also the hearth consisted of such a depression, of varying dimensions, in the middle or in one corner of the room. There was no chimney for the smoke, which escaped as it could, or through a latticed opening for the purpose (the "chimney" of Hosea 13:3). While the nature of the hearth is thus clear enough, more or less uncertainty attaches to specific terms used in the Hebrew. In Isaiah 30:14 the expression means simply "that which is kindled," referring to the bed of live coals. From this same verb (yaqadh, "be kindled") are formed the nouns moqedh (Psalm 102:3 (Hebrew 4)) and moqkedhah (Leviticus 6:9 (Hebrew 2)) which might, according to their formation, mean either the material kindled or the place where a fire is kindled. Hence, the various renderings, "firebrand," "hearth," etc. Moreover, in Leviticus 6:9 (2) the termination -ah of moqedhah may be taken as the pronominal suffix, "its"; hence, the Revised Version margin "on its firewood." (2) Two other terms have reference to heating in the better class of houses. In Jeremiah 36:22, 23 the word ('ach) means a "brazier" of burning coals, with which Jehoiakim's "winter house" was heated. The same purpose was served by the "pan (kiyyor) of fire" of Zechariah 12:6 the Revised Version (British and American), apparently a wide, shallow vessel otherwise used for cooking (1 Samuel 2:14, English Versions of the Bible "pan"), or as a wash basin (compare Exodus 30:18 1 Kings 7:38, etc., "laver"). (3) Another class of passages is referred to the signification "altar hearth," which seems to have been a term applied to the top of the altar of burnt offering. The moqedhah of Leviticus 6:9 (2), though related by derivation to the words discussed under (1) above, belongs here (compare also Ecclesiasticus 50:12, "by the hearth of the altar," par' eschara bomou). Again in Ezekiel's description of the altar of the restored temple (43:15, 16), he designates the top of the altar by a special term (the Revised Version margin, ariel), which is by most understood to mean "altar hearth" (so the Revised Version (British and American)). With this may be compared the symbolical name given to Jerusalem (Isaiah 29:1), and variously explained as "lion (or lioness) of God," or "hearth of God." Benjamin Reno Downer

Multi-Version Concordance Hearth (12 Occurrences) Genesis 18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. (KJV WBS) Leviticus 6:9 "Command Aaron and his sons, saying,'This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. (WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV) Leviticus 11:35 And everything where upon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; oven and hearth shall be broken down: they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you. (DBY) Psalms 102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. (KJV JPS WBS NAS) Isaiah 29:2 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth. (WEB JPS NIV) Isaiah 30:14 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV) Isaiah 30:33 For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. (See JPS) Jeremiah 36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. (KJV WBS) Jeremiah 36:23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. (KJV WBS) Ezekiel 43:15 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns. (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV) Ezekiel 43:16 The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it. (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV) Zechariah 12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. (KJV DBY WBS YLT)