~ as an oven ~ 28_HOS_07_04  They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. #, 28_HOS_07_07  They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen, [there is] none among them that calleth unto me. #, 39_MAL_04_01  For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. #,