Easton's Bible Dictionary A vessel of metal or earthenware used in culinary operations; a cooking-pan or frying-pan frequently referred to in the Old Testament (Leviticus 2:5; 6:21; Numbers 11:8; 1 Samuel 2:14, etc.). The "ash-pans" mentioned in Exodus 27:3 were made of copper, and were used in connection with the altar of burnt-offering. The "iron pan" mentioned in Ezek. 4:3 (marg., "flat plate " or "slice") was probably a mere plate of iron used for baking. The "fire-pans" of Exodus 27:3 were fire-shovels used for taking up coals. The same Hebrew word is rendered "snuff-dishes" (25:38; 37:23) and "censers" (Leviticus 10:1; 16:12; Numbers 4:14, etc.). These were probably simply metal vessels employed for carrying burning embers from the brazen altar to the altar of incense. The "frying-pan" mentioned in Leviticus 2:7; 7:9 was a pot for boiling. Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A part; a portion. 2. (n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle. 3. (n.) A leaf of gold or silver. 4. (v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite. 5. (n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See betel. 6. (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented. 7. (n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing. 8. (n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum. 9. (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming. 10. (n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium. 11. (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge. 12. (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard. 13. (n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud. 14. (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. 15. (v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly. 16. (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PAN Name of a utensil used in the preparation or the serving of food, and representing several words in the original. Passing over the use of the word in connections like 1 Chronicles 9:31, "things baked in pans," where the Hebrew word chabhittim refers, not to the pan itself, but to the cakes baked in the flat pan or griddle which was called machabhath (see below), and the "firepans" (machtah) (Exodus 27:3 1 Kings 7:50, etc.) which seem to have been used to carry burning coals, we note the following words: (1) machabhath, "pan" the King James Version, "baking-pan" the Revised Version (British and American), a dish of uncertain shape and size which was used in the preparation of the minchah or vegetable offering. See Leviticus 2:5; Leviticus 6:21; Leviticus 7:9 1 Chronicles 23:29. On the basis of Ezekiel 4:3 it might be assumed that the pan was rectangular in shape and of good size. (2) kiyyor, rendered "pan" in 1 Samuel 2:14. The same word is used in the phrase, "pan of fire" the Revised Version (British and American), "hearth of fire" the King James Version (Zechariah 12:6); and it is also translated "laver" in the descriptions of the furnishing of tabernacle and temple (Exodus 30:18 1 Kings 7:30, etc.). As it held water and was used for boiling meat and the like, it must have been a kind of pot or kettle. (3) masreth, (2 Samuel 15:9). The connection gives no clue as to shape or size except that it must have been small enough to serve food in, and of the proper shape to hold a substance which could be poured out. Some authorities suggest a connection with the root se'or, "leaven," and think that this pan was like the kneading-trough in shape. (4) sir, rendered "pan" in Exodus 27:3 the King James Version, "pot" the Revised Version (British and American). See POT. (5) parur, "pan" in Numbers 11:8 the King James Version, "pot" the Revised Version (British and American). See POT. (6) celachah (2 Chronicles 35:13). Some kind of dish or pot. Slightly different forms of the same root are rendered "cruse" (2 Kings 2:20 (tselochith), "dish" (2 Kings 21:13 (tsallachath); and also in the Revised Version (British and American) in Proverbs 19:24; Proverbs 26:15, instead of the probably incorrect "bosom" of the King James Version. (7) lebes translated "pan" in 1 Esdras 1:12 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "cauldron"). (8) teganon, 2 Maccabees 7:3, 5, with the verb teganizo, 7:5, is the usual Greek word for "frying-pan," but here a large sheet of metal must be meant (compare 4 Maccabees 8:13; 12:10, 20). LITERATURE. Whitehouse, Primer of Hebrew Antiquities, 76, 77; Benzinger, Hebraische Archaologie, 70, 71; Nowack, Hebraische Archdologie, I, 144. Walter R. Betteridge BAKING PAN See BREAD; PAN.

Multi-Version Concordance Pan (26 Occurrences) Leviticus 2:5 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baked in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil. (KJV ASV DBY WBS) Leviticus 2:7 If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Leviticus 6:21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baked, thou shalt bring it in: and the baked pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savor unto the LORD. (KJV ASV DBY WBS) Leviticus 7:9 Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest's who offers it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Numbers 7:14 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 7:20 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 7:26 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 7:32 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 7:38 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 7:44 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 7:50 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 7:56 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 7:62 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 7:68 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 7:74 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 7:80 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS) Numbers 11:8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. (Root in KJV WBS YLT) 1 Samuel 2:14 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) 2 Samuel 6:19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to every one a cake of bread, and a portion of flesh , and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed every one to his house. (See JPS) 2 Samuel 13:9 She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, "Have all men leave me." Every man went out from him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) 1 Chronicles 16:3 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion of flesh , and a cake of raisins. (See JPS) 1 Chronicles 23:29 for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size; (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS) Jeremiah 36:23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan. (DBY) Ezekiel 4:3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NIV) Micah 3:3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. (See NIV) Zechariah 12:6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem. (WEB JPS ASV)