1) kiln (pottery or lime), smelting forge, furnace Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3533 Same Word by TWOT Number: 952
Brown-Driver-Briggs
כִּבְשָׁןnoun masculinekiln, for lime or pottery (so Ki, AW; MishnaKel viii. 9; √ and original meaning dubious; according to Thes as subduing, reducing its contents, compare igne ferrum domatur PlinNat. Hist. 36. 27) — always absolute; only in ׳קִיטוֺר הַכּGenesis 19:28 (J; simile of smoke of כִּכָּר, Sodom and Gomorrah); ׳עֶשֶׁן הַכּExodus 19:18 (E; simile of smoke of Sinai); ׳מִּיחַ כ ashes of kiln Exodus 9:8, compare Exodus 9:10 (both P).
כדד (√ of following; Arabic is toil severely; fatigue, weary, harass, tread; mortar in which things are pounded, bruised; what remains in bottom of cooking-pot).
Genesis 19:28 HEB:הָאָ֔רֶץ כְּקִיטֹ֖ר הַכִּבְשָֽׁן׃ NAS: ascended like the smoke of a furnace. KJV: went up as the smoke of a furnace. INT: of the land the smoke of a furnace
Exodus 9:8 HEB:חָפְנֵיכֶ֔ם פִּ֖יחַ כִּבְשָׁ֑ן וּזְרָק֥וֹ מֹשֶׁ֛ה NAS: of soot from a kiln, and let Moses KJV: of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses INT: fists of soot A kiln throw Moses
Exodus 9:10 HEB:אֶת־ פִּ֣יחַ הַכִּבְשָׁ֗ן וַיַּֽעַמְדוּ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י NAS: soot from a kiln, and stood KJV: ashes of the furnace, and stood INT: took soot A kiln and stood before
Exodus 19:18 HEB:עֲשָׁנוֹ֙ כְּעֶ֣שֶׁן הַכִּבְשָׁ֔ן וַיֶּחֱרַ֥ד כָּל־ NAS: like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole KJV: as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount INT: smoke the smoke of a furnace quaked and the whole