Hebrew verb · H3857
לָהַט
lahatlaw-hat'
to kindle
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lâhaṭ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3857is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3857
properly, to lick, i.e. (by implication) to blaze
The King James renders it: burn (up), set on fire, flaming, 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
lahat is rendered "to kindle". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy 32:22וַתְּלַהֵ֖ט
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it sets ablaze2
- and it has set ablaze1
- and it may burn up1
- and it set ablaze it1
- and it will set ablaze1
- devour1
- flaming1
- it burned up1
- it has set ablaze1
- it kindles1
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.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- תְּלַהֵ֥ט2
- וְלִהַ֨ט1
- וַתְּלַהֵ֖ט1
- וּתְלַהֵ֖ט1
- וַתְּלַהֲטֵ֤הוּ1
- לֹהֵֽט׃1
- לִהֲטָ֖ה1
- לֹ֫הֲטִ֥ים1
- תְּלַהֵ֑ט1
- תְּלַהֵ֣ט1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular4HVpi3fs
- Hc/Vpq3ms1Hc/Vpq3ms
- HC/Vpu3fs1HC/Vpu3fs
- Hc/Vpw3fs1Hc/Vpw3fs
- Hc/Vpw3fs/Sp3ms1Hc/Vpw3fs/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HVqrmpa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
Deuteronomy
one use
For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
- וַתְּלַהֵ֖טvatelahetHc/Vpw3fstagged: and it has set ablaze
Job
one use
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
- תְּלַהֵ֑טtelahetverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it kindles
Psalms
five uses
My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- לֹ֫הֲטִ֥יםlohatimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: devour
As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
- תְּלַהֵ֥טtelahetverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it sets ablaze
Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side.
- וּתְלַהֵ֖טutelahetHC/Vpu3fstagged: and it may burn up
He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.
- לֹהֵֽט׃lohetverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: flaming
Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.
- תְּלַהֵ֥טtelahetverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it burned up
Isaiah
one use
So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
- וַתְּלַהֲטֵ֤הוּvatelahatehuHc/Vpw3fs/Sp3mstagged: and it set ablaze it
Joel
two uses
To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.
- לִהֲטָ֖הlihatahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has set ablaze
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.
- תְּלַהֵ֣טtelahetverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it sets ablaze
Malachi
one use
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
- וְלִהַ֨טvelihatHc/Vpq3mstagged: and it will set ablaze
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.