To kindle
לָהַטStrong’s H3857lahat (la-hat)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lahat is the Hebrew word usually translated “it sets ablaze”, “it has set ablaze” and “it kindles”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.”
Meaning
- To burn, blaze, scorch, kindle, blaze up, flame(Qal) blazing (participle) · (Piel) to scorch, burn, blaze
How it's translated
- it sets ablaze 2
- and it has set ablaze 1
- it kindles 1
- devour 1
- and it may burn up 1
- flaming 1
- it burned up 1
- and it set ablaze it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Joel 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Malachi 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 41:21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
- Psalms 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
- Psalms 83:14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
- Psalms 97:3A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
- Psalms 104:4Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
- Psalms 106:18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
Hebrew dictionary
לָהַט lahat · to kindle
1) to burn, blaze, scorch, kindle, blaze up, flame 1a) (Qal) blazing (participle) 1b)(Piel) to scorch, burn, blaze
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.