To kindle
יָצַתStrong’s H3341yatsat (ya-tsat)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yatsat is the Hebrew word usually translated “kindle”, “set on fire” and “kindled”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.”
Meaning
- To kindle, burn, set on fire(Qal) to kindle · (Niphal) · (Hiphil) to set on fire, kindle
How it's translated
- and i will kindle 6
- and they set on fire 3
- they will be kindled 3
- they have been burned 2
- you will set on fire 1
- and set on fire it 1
- have they set on fire 1
- it has been kindled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 14
- Joshua 2
- 2 Samuel 2
- 2 Kings 2
- Nehemiah 2
- Isaiah 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 8:19And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
- Judges 9:49And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
- 2 Samuel 14:30Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab’s field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
- 2 Samuel 14:31Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
- 2 Kings 22:13Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
- 2 Kings 22:17Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
Hebrew dictionary
יָצַת yatsat · to kindle
1) to kindle, burn, set on fire 1a) (Qal) to kindle 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be kindled 1b2) to be left desolate 1c) (Hiphil) to set on fire, kindle
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “kindle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
KIN'DLE, verb transitive
[Latin accendo; from the root of candeo, caneo, to be light or white, to shine.]
- To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to light; as, to kindle a fire.
- To inflame, as the passions; to exasperate; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle resentment; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame.“So is a contentious woman to kindle strife” Proverbs 26:21
- To bring forth.
All definitions and other forms of “kindle”
KIN'DLE, verb intransitive
To take fire; to begin to burn with flame. Fuel and fire well laid, will kindle without a bellows.
- To begin to rage, or be violently excited; to be roused or exasperated.“It shall kindle in the thickets of the forest” Isaiah 9:18
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.