To kindle
שָׂלַקStrong’s H5400nasaq (na-saq)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nasaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “it was kindled”, “kindles a fire” and “kindle a fire”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;”
Meaning
- To kindle, burn(Niphal) to be kindled · (Hiphil) to make a fire, burn
How it's translated
- it was kindled 1
- he kindles a fire 1
- and they will kindle a fire 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 44:15Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
- Ezekiel 39:9And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂלַק nasaq · to kindle
1) to kindle, burn 1a) (Niphal) to be kindled 1b) (Hiphil) to make a fire, burn
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.