OUTRAGEOUS (out-rajus), (Heb. 7.114, show 'of', to gush out, Prov. xxvii:4), hence the meta phorical saying: "Anger is an outfiouring." OVEN (iiv"ii), (Heb tan-moor', fire pot; Greek KX/gavor, klib'an-os, earthen pot) The Bedouin Arabs use three or four different ovens, the description of which may throw sorne light upon the oven of the Bible.
(1) Sand Oven. This is nothing more than the sand of the earth, upon which a fire is made until it is supposed to be sufficiently heated. The fuel and fire are then cleared away, and the dough is laid on the hot sand in flat pieces about the thickness of a plate (Is. xliv :15, 19). These are the ''ash-cakes" (Gen. xviii :6; Kings xvii :13 ; xix :6). (See BREAD.) (2) Earth Oven. The earth oven is a round hole in the earth. Stones are first put into this, and a fire is kindled upon them. When the stones have become thoroughly hot, the fire is removed and the dough spread in thin flakes upon the heated stones. and tinned as often as may be necessary. The ovens used in Persia are about t WO and a half feet wide and not less than five or six feet deep. They resemble pits or wells. and sheep are hung lengthwise in them and cooked whole. These may be what aye rendered in our version "ranges for pots" (Lev. xi:35).
(3) Portable Oven. This is an earthen vessel without a bottom. about three feet high. smeared outside and inside with clay and placed upon a frame or support. Fire is made within it or be low it. When the sides are sufficiently heated thin patches of dough are spread on the inside, and the top is covered without removing the fire, as in the other cases. and the bread is quickly baked. To this we may refer the phrase "baken in the oven" (Lev. ii :4). Convex plates of iron, pans or plates, flat stones, etc., are often used for bakin,g. (SeC BREAD ; FURNACE.) (Schaff, Bib. Dirt.) Figurative. (1) God makes his enemies a "fiery oven," and his judgments "burn as an 07102" (Ps. xxi :9 ; Mal. iv :1). (2) Hosea compares adulterers and unclean persons to a heated oven (chapter vii :4. 6, 7)• (3) "Ten women shall bake your bread in 011C 07'01" (Lev. xxvi :26) is a figurative expression for scarcity; for in ordinary times each woman would have enough baking for an oven of her own. (4) "Our skin was black like an oven" (Lam. V : to). As an oven is scorched and blackened with fire. so hunger dries, shrivels the skin until it becomes as if scorched by the sun.