yatsat · set on fire

What it means

yatsat (יָצַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “set on fire”.

Burn.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To make something start burning; also anger that flares up.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• set ×13
• I will kindle ×6
• burned ×3
• kindled ×3
• will be burned ×2
• it kindles ×1
• kindling ×1

Where it appears

• Joshua×2
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 2 Kings×2
• Nehemiah×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×14
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×1

• Joshua 8:8

  And it shall be, when you have captured the city, that you shall set the city on fire. According to the word of YHWH you shall do. See, I have commanded you.”

• Joshua 8:19

  And the ambush rose quickly from its place, and they ran as soon as he stretched out his hand, and entered the city and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.

• Judges 9:49

  So all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech; they put them against the fortress and set the fortress on fire over them, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.

• 2 Samuel 14:30

  He said to his servants, “See, Joab’s plot is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So the servants of Absalom set the plot on fire.

• 2 Samuel 14:31

  Joab got up and came to Absalom at the house and said to him, “Why have your servants set the plot that is mine on fire?”

• 2 Kings 22:13

  “Go, consult YHWH for me and for the people and for all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is the fury of YHWH that is kindled against us, because our fathers did not listen to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”

• 2 Kings 22:17

  because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods, so as to provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands; so my fury will be kindled against this place and will not be quenched.

• Nehemiah 1:3

  And they said to me, “Those who remain, who have been left from the captivity there in the province, are in great trouble and in reproach; and the wall of Jerusalem is full of breaches, and its gates have been set on fire.”

• Nehemiah 2:17

  Then I said to them, “You see the trouble that we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been set on fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be a reproach.”

• Isaiah 9:18

  For wickedness burns like a fire; it devours briers and thorns, and it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll up in a column of smoke.

• Isaiah 33:12

  And peoples will be burnings of lime, thornbushes cut down, in the fire they will be set ablaze.

• Jeremiah 2:15

  Against him young lions roar, they have raised their voice, and they have made his land a horror; his cities are burned, without inhabitant.

• Jeremiah 9:10

  For the mountains I will take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lament, for they are burned, with no man passing through, and the sound of cattle is not heard; from the birds of the heavens to the beasts, they have fled, they are gone.

• Jeremiah 9:12

  Who is the man wise enough to understand this? And to whom has the mouth of YHWH spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, burned like the wilderness, with no one passing through?

• Jeremiah 11:16

  A flourishing olive tree, beautiful in fruit and in form, YHWH called your name; with the noise of a great roar he has set fire to it, and its branches are broken.

• Jeremiah 17:27

  But if you do not listen to me, to keep holy the day of the Sabbath, and not to carry a burden and come in through the gates of Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath, then I will kindle a fire in her gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be quenched.’”

• Jeremiah 21:14

  And I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares YHWH; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’”

• Jeremiah 32:29

  And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire and burn it, along with the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to Baal and poured out libations to other gods, to provoke me.

• Jeremiah 43:12

  And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive; and he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as the shepherd wraps himself with his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.

• Jeremiah 46:19

  Make for yourself baggage for exile, you who dwell, daughter of Egypt, for Memphis will become a horror, and will be set on fire, without inhabitant.

• Jeremiah 49:2

  Therefore, look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will make heard against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon the shout of war; and it will become a mound of desolation, and her daughters will be burned with fire; and Israel will possess those who possessed him, says YHWH.

• Jeremiah 49:27

  And I will kindle fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.

• Jeremiah 50:32

  And Insolence will stumble and fall, and there will be no one to raise it up; and I will kindle fire in its cities, and it will consume all that is around it.

• Jeremiah 51:30

  The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight; they remain in the strongholds; their might has failed; they have become women; they have set on fire her dwellings; her bars are broken.

• Jeremiah 51:58

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly razed, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and peoples labor for nothing, and nations for the fire, and they grow weary.

• Lamentations 4:11

  YHWH has spent his fury; he has poured out his burning anger; and he has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured her foundations.

• Ezekiel 20:47

  And say to the forest of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of YHWH: Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am kindling in you a fire, and it will consume in you every green tree and every dry tree; the flame of fire will not be quenched, and all faces will be scorched by it, from the Negev to the north.

• Amos 1:14

  And I will kindle fire on the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour her citadels, with a war cry on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.

And 1 more times.