To burn
יְקַדStrong’s H3345yeqad (ye-qad)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yeqad is the Aramaic word usually translated “burning”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.”
Meaning
- (P'al) to burn
How it's translated
- burning 8
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 8
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:11In contextAnd whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:15In contextNow if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
- Daniel 3:17In contextIf it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
- Daniel 3:20In contextAnd he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:21In contextThen these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:23In contextAnd these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
Aramaic dictionary
יְקַד yeqad · to burn
(P'al) to burn Aramaic of ya.qad (יָקַד "to burn" H3344)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “burn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BURN, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive burned or burnt. [Latin pruna, and perhaps, furnus, fornaz, a furnace. The primary sense is, to rage, to act with violent excitement.]
- To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; frequently with up; as, to burn up wood.
- To expel the volatile parts and reduce to charcoal by fire; as, to burn wood into coal.
- To cleanse of soot by burning; to inflame; as, to burn a chimney; an extensive use of the word.
- To harden in the fire; to bake or harden by heat; as, to burn bricks or a brick kiln.
All definitions and other forms of “burn”
- To scorch; to affect by heat; as, to burn the clothes or the legs by the fire; to burn meat or bread in cookery.
- To injure by fire; to affect the flesh by heat.
- To dry up or dissipate; with up; as, to burn up tears.
- To dry excessively; to cause to wither by heat; as, the sun burns the grass or plants.
- To heat or inflame; to affect with excessive stimulus; as, ardent spirits burn the stomach.
- To affect with heat in cookery, so as to give the food a disagreeable taste.
- To calcine with heat or fire; to expel the volatile matter from substances, so that they are easily pulverized; as, to burn oyster shells, or lime-stone.
- To affect with excess of heat; as, the fever burns a patient.
- To subject to the action of fire; to heat or dry; as, to burn colors.
BURN, verb intransitive
To be on fire; to flame; as, the mount burned with fire.
- To shine; to sparkle.
- To be inflamed with passion or desire; as, to burn with anger or love.
- To act with destructive violence, as fire.
- To be in commotion; to rage with destructive violence.
- To be heated; to be in a glow; as, the face burns.
- To be affected with a sensation of heat, pain or acidity; as, the heart burns.
- To feel excess of heat; as, the flesh burns by a fire; a patient burns with a fever.
BURN, noun
A hurt or injury of the flesh caused by the action of fire.
- The operation of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.