Pan
is the rendering in the A.V. of the following words in the original. SEE DISH.
1. Kiyor, or (from , to cook), a basin of metal used for boiling or stewing (1Sa 2:14; Sept. ; Vulg. lebetem); also as a laver (as generally rendered) or basin for washing (Exo 30:18; Sept. ; Vulg. labrum; 1Ki 7:38; 1Ki 7:40; 1Ki 7:43; Sept. ; Alex. ; Vulg. luteres); and (with
) a brazier for carrying fire (Zec 12:6; A.V. hearth; Sept. ; Vulg. caminum ignis); finally a wooden platform from which to speak (2Ch 6:13; A.V. pulpit), doubtless from its round form. SEE LAYER.
2. Machabdth, (from obs., prob. to cook; comp. Arab. khabaza, to prepare food), a shallow vessel or griddle used for baking cakes (Lev 2:5; Lev 6:14 [A.V. 21]; 7:9; 1Ch 23:29 [flat plate, marg. A.V.]; Eze 4:3); Sept. ; Vulg. sartago; apparently a shallow pan or plate, like that used by Bedawin and Syrians for baking or dressing rapidly their cakes of meal, such as were used in legal oblations. SEE CAKE.
3. Masreth, , a flat vessel or plate for baking cakes (2Sa 13:9; Sept. ). Gesenius says the etymology is uncertain, but suggests that the word may be derived from a root or = Arab. sharay, to shine, and was applied to the pan because it was kept bright. The distinction, therefore, between this and the preceding word may be that the masreth was used dry, while the machabath was employed for cooking in oil. SEE BAKE.
4. Sir, , a deep vessel used for cooking food (Exo 27:3), properly a large (see 2Ki 4:38) pot (as usually rendered) or caldron (as rendered in Jer 1:13; Jer 3:18-19; Eze 11:3; Eze 11:7; Eze 11:11); especially for boiling meat, placed during the process on three stones (Burckhardt, Notes on Bed. 1:58; Niebuhr. Descr. de l’Arabie, p. 46; Lane, Mod. Eg. 1:181). SEE CALDRON.
5. Parur, (Sept. ; Vulg. olla), a vessel used for baking the manna (Num 11:8), for holding soup (Jdg 6:19; A.V. pot), and for boiling flesh (1Sa 2:14, pot). Gesenius says it is for , heat, from = Arab. par, to boil. Furst questions this, and derives it from , to excavate, to deepen. SEE POT.
6. Tselachoth, (pl. of ), large dishes or platters (2Ch 35:13; Sept. ; Vulg. ollae). The cognate , tseldchath, denotes a dish which maybe held in the hand and turned over for the purpose of wiping it (2Ki 21:13); in Pro 19:24; Pro 26:13, it is used tropically of the bosom. SEE PLATTER.
7. Marchesheth, (from , to bubble over), a kettle for boiling meat (Lev 2:7; Lev 7:9; frying-pan). SEE FRYING-PAN.
8. Greek , a pot (1Es 1:12; 2Ma 7:3); but , to broil (2Ma 7:5, fry in the pan). SEE ROAST.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Pan (2)
is the name of the chief god of pastures, forests, and flocks among the ancient Greeks. The later rationalizing mythologists, misconceiving the meaning of his name (), which they confounded with , the whole or the universe, whereas it is more probably connected with (Lat. pasco), to feed, to pasture, represented him as a personification of the universe; but there is absolutely nothing in the myth to warrant such a notion. Pan neither in his genius nor his history figures as one of the great principal deities, and his worship became general only at a comparatively late period. He was, according to the most common belief, a son of Hermes (Mercury) by the daughter of Dryops; or by Penelope, the wife of Ulysses; while other accounts make Penelope the mother, but Ulysses himself the father though the paternity of the god is also ascribed to the numerous wooers of Penelope in common. The original seat of his worship was the wild, hilly, and wooded solitudes of Arcadia, whence it gradually spread over the rest of Greece, but was not introduced into Athens until after the battle of Marathon. Homer does not mention him. His personal appearance is variously described. After the age of Praxiteles he is represented with horns, a goat’s beard, a crooked nose, pointed ears, a tail, and goat’s feet. The legend goes that his strange appearance so frightened his mother that she ran off for fear; but his father, Herpies, carried him to Olympus, where all the gods, especially Dionysus (Bacchus), were charmed with the little monster. When he grew up he had a grim, shaggy aspect and a terrible voice, which bursting abruptly on the ear of the traveler in solitary places for Pan was fond of making a great noise- inspired him with a sudden fear (whence the word panic). It is even related that the alarm excited by his blowing upon a shell decided the victory of the gods over the Titans. Previous to the age of Praxiteles Pan was usually represented in a human form, and was characterized by the shepherd’s pipe, the pastoral crook, the disordered hair, and also sprouting horns.
Pan was the patron of all persons occupied in the .care of cattle and of bees. in hunting and in fishing. During the heat of the day he used to take a nap in the deep woods or on the lonely hill-sides, and was exceedingly wroth if his slumber was disturbed by the halloo of the hunters. He is also represented as fond of music, and of dancing with the forest nymphs, and as the inventor of the syrinx or shepherd’s flute, also called Pan’s pipe. Cows, goats, lambs, milk, honey, and new wine were offered to him. The fir-tree was sacred to him, and he had sanctuaries and temples in various parts of Arcadia at Treezene, at Sicyon, at Athens, etc. The Romans identified the Greek Pan with their own Italian god Inuus, and sometimes also with Faunus. His festivals, called by the Greeks Lyccea, were brought to Italy by Evander, and they were well known at Rome by the name of the Lupercalia. The worship and the different functions of Pan are derived from the mythology of the ancient Egyptians. This god was one of the eight great gods of the Egyptians, who ranked before the other twelve gods, whom the Romans called Consentes. He was worshipped with the greatest solemnity all over Egypt. His statues represented him as a goat, not because he was really such, but this was done for mysterious reasons. He was the emblem of fecundity. and they looked upon him as the principle of all things. His horns, as some observe, represented the rays of the sun, and the brightness of the heavens was expressed by the vivacity and the ruddiness of his complexion. The star which he wore on his breast was the symbol of the firmament, and his hairy legs and feet denoted the inferior parts of the earth such as the woods and plants. Some suppose that he appeared as a goat because when the gods fled into Egypt, in their war against the giants, Pan transformed himself into a goat, an example which was immediately followed by all the deities.
When, after the establishment of Christianity, the heathen deities were degraded by the Church into fallen angels, the characteristics of Pan viz. the horns, the goat’s beard, the pointed ears, the crooked nose, the tail, and the goat’s feet were transferred to the devil himself, and thus the Auld Hornie of popular superstition is simply Pan in disguise. See Chambers, Cyclop. s.v.; Smith, Dict. of Gr. and Romans Biog. and Mythol. s.v.; Vollmer, Mythol. Wortelbuch, p. 1283, 1284; Westcott, Handbook of Archaeology, p. 186.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Pan
a vessel of metal or earthenware used in culinary operations; a cooking-pan or frying-pan frequently referred to in the Old Testament (Lev. 2:5; 6:21; Num. 11:8; 1 Sam. 2:14, etc.).
The “ash-pans” mentioned in Ex. 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 Ex. 27:3 were fire-shovels used for taking up coals. The same Hebrew word is rendered “snuff-dishes” (25:38; 37:23) and “censers” (Lev. 10:1; 16:12; Num. 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 Lev. 2:7; 7:9 was a pot for boiling.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Pan
PAN.See House, 9.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
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 1Ch 9:31, things baked in pans, where the Hebrew word habhittm refers, not to the pan itself, but to the cakes baked in the flat pan or griddle which was called mahabhath (see below), and the firepans (mahtah) (Exo 27:3; 1Ki 7:50, etc.) which seem to have been used to carry burning coals, we note the following words:
(1) , mahabhath, 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 minhah or vegetable offering. See Lev 2:5; Lev 6:21; Lev 7:9; 1Ch 23:29. On the basis of Eze 4:3 it might be assumed that the pan was rectangular in shape and of good size.
(2) , kiyyor, rendered pan in 1Sa 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 (Zec 12:6); and it is also translated laver in the descriptions of the furnishing of tabernacle and temple (Exo 30:18; 1Ki 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, (2Sa 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) , sr, rendered pan in Exo 27:3 the King James Version, pot the Revised Version (British and American). See POT.
(5) , parur, pan in Num 11:8 the King James Version, pot the Revised Version (British and American). See POT.
(6) , celahah (2Ch 35:13). Some kind of dish or pot. Slightly different forms of the same root are rendered cruse (2Ki 2:20 (celohth), dish (2Ki 21:13 (callahath); and also in the Revised Version (British and American) in Pro 19:24; Pro 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 Macc 7:3, 5, with the verb , teganzo, 7:5, is the usual Greek word for frying-pan, but here a large sheet of metal must be meant (compare 4 Macc 8:13; 12:10, 20).
Literature.
Whitehouse, Primer of Hebrew Antiquities, 76, 77; Benzinger, Hebraische Archaologie, 70, 71; Nowack, Hebraische Archdologie, I, 144.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Pan
Some of these were made of iron as mentioned in Eze 4:3, and were used for baking cakes, etc. Lev 2:5; 1Ch 23:29. The iron plates that were laid on the small ovens, and on which bread and cakes were baked, are probably alluded to.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Pan
Pan. Of the six words so rendered in the Authorized Version, two seem to imply a shallow pan or plate, such as is used by the Bedouine and Syrians for baking or dressing rapidly their cakes of meal, such as were used in legal oblations; the others, a deeper vessel or caldron for boiling meat, placed, during the process, on three stones.