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Hebrew verb · H3341

יָצַת

yatsathyaw-tsath'

to kindle

29 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: yâtsath

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3341is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 27
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3341

to burn or set on fire; figuratively, to desolate

The King James renders it: burn (up), be desolate, set (on) fire (fire), kindle.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

yatsath is rendered "to kindle". It stands 29 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Fourteen of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 8:8And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-seven different ways.

The first use

And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”

Joshua 8:8תַּצִּ֤יתוּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Fourteen of the word's twenty-nine uses are in Jeremiah.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and I will kindle6
  • and they set on fire3
  • they will be kindled3
  • they have been burned2
  • about to kindle1
  • and he has kindled1
  • and it has kindled1
  • and it will be kindled1
  • and it will be made desolate1
  • and set on fire it1
  • and they will set on fire1
  • has it become desolate1

and 7 more, 29 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

יָצַרyatsarto form: formedUses62
יָצַקyatsaqto pour: pourUses50
יָצַבyatsabto standUses48
יָצַגyatsagto setUses16
יָצַרyatsarbe distressedUses10

All 29, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

27 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וְהִצַּ֤תִּי3
  • הִצִּ֥ית1
  • הִצִּ֧יתוּ1
  • הִצִּ֥יתוּ1
  • וְהִצִּ֜יתוּ1
  • וְהַצִּית֣וּהָ1
  • וְהִצַּ֧תִּי1
  • וְהִצַּ֣תִּי1
  • וְהִצַּ֥תִּי1
  • וַיַּצִּ֥יתוּ1
  • וַיַּצִּ֧יתוּ1
  • וַיַּצֶּת־1

and 15 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vhq1cs6Hc/Vhq1cs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural4HVNp3cp
  • Hc/Vhw3mp3Hc/Vhw3mp
  • Hc/VNq3fs2Hc/VNq3fs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVhp3cp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVNp3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVqi3mp
  • Hc/Vhq3cp1Hc/Vhq3cp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Vhv2mp/Sp3fs
  • Hc/Vhw3ms1Hc/Vhw3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVhi2mp

Joshua

two uses
  • And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”

    Joshua 8:8

    • תַּצִּ֤יתוּtatzituverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will set on fire
  • and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

    Joshua 8:19

    • וַיַּצִּ֥יתוּvaiyatzituHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they set on fire

Judges

one use
  • So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.

    Judges 9:49

    • וַיַּצִּ֧יתוּvaiyatzituHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they set on fire

2 Samuel

three uses
  • Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

    2 Samuel 14:30

    • וְהַצִּית֣וּהָvehotziteihaconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and set on fire it
    • וַיַּצִּ֜תוּvaiyatzituHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they set on fire
  • Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”

    2 Samuel 14:31

    • הִצִּ֧יתוּhitzituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: have they set on fire

2 Kings

two uses
  • “Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”

    2 Kings 22:13

    • נִצְּתָ֣הnitzetahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been kindled
  • because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place and will not be quenched.’

    2 Kings 22:17

    • וְנִצְּתָ֧הvenitzetahHc/VNq3fstagged: and it will be kindled

Nehemiah

two uses
  • And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

    Nehemiah 1:3

    • נִצְּת֥וּnitzetuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been burned
  • Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

    Nehemiah 2:17

    • נִצְּת֣וּnitzetuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been burned

Isaiah

two uses
  • For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.

    Isaiah 9:18

    • וַתִּצַּת֙vatitzatHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it has kindled
  • The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

    Isaiah 33:12

    • יִצַּֽתּוּ׃ סyitzatuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be kindled

Jeremiah

fourteen uses
  • The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.

    Jeremiah 2:15

    • נִצְּת֖וּnitzetahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are burnt
  • I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

    Jeremiah 9:10

    • נִצְּתוּ֙nitzetuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are left desolate
  • Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?

    Jeremiah 9:12

    • נִצְּתָ֥הnitzetahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: has it become desolate
  • The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.

    Jeremiah 11:16

    • הִצִּ֥יתhitzitverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has kindled
  • But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”

    Jeremiah 17:27

    • וְהִצַּ֧תִּיvehitzatiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will kindle
  • I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’”

    Jeremiah 21:14

    • וְהִצַּ֤תִּיvehitzatiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will kindle
  • And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.

    Jeremiah 32:29

    • וְהִצִּ֜יתוּvehitzituHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they will set on fire
  • I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.

    Jeremiah 43:12

    • וְהִצַּ֣תִּיvehitzatiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will kindle
  • Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.

    Jeremiah 46:19

    • וְנִצְּתָ֖הvenitzetahHc/VNq3fstagged: and it will be made desolate
  • Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.

    Jeremiah 49:2

    • תִּצַּ֑תְנָהtitzatnahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will be kindled
  • “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”

    Jeremiah 49:27

    • וְהִצַּ֥תִּיvehitzatiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will kindle
  • The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him.”

    Jeremiah 50:32

    • וְהִצַּ֤תִּיvehitzatiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will kindle
  • The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

    Jeremiah 51:30

    • הִצִּ֥יתוּhitzituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will be set on fire
  • This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”

    Jeremiah 51:58

    • יִצַּ֑תּוּyitzatuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be kindled

Lamentations

one use
  • The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.

    Lamentations 4:11

    • וַיַּצֶּת־vaiyatzet-Hc/Vhw3mstagged: and he has kindled

Ezekiel

one use
  • Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.

    Ezekiel 20:47

    • מַֽצִּית־matzit-verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to kindle

Amos

one use
  • So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.

    Amos 1:14

    • וְהִצַּ֤תִּיvehitzatiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will kindle

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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