lahat · set ablaze

What it means

lahat (לָהַט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “set ablaze”.

Set on fire.

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 burn with a fire that consumes what it reaches.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sets ablaze ×3
• blazes ×1
• burned up ×1
• flaming ×1
• has scorched ×1
• it set him ablaze ×1
• kindles ×1
• those who blaze ×1
• will set them ablaze ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×1
• Joel×2
• Malachi×1

• Deuteronomy 32:22

  For a fire has been kindled in my anger, and it burns to the lowest Sheol; it devours the earth and its produce and sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.

• Job 41:21

  Its breath kindles coals, and a flame from its mouth comes out.

• Psalms 57:4

  My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down among those who blaze, human beings whose teeth are a spear and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

• Psalms 83:14

  Like fire that burns the forest, and like a flame that sets ablaze the mountains,

• Psalms 97:3

  Fire goes before him, and sets ablaze his adversaries all around.

• Psalms 104:4

  who makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire.

• Psalms 106:18

  And a fire blazed in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.

• Isaiah 42:25

  So he poured out on him the fury of his anger and the fierceness of war; and it set him ablaze all around, but he did not know it; and it burned against him, but he did not take it to heart.

• Joel 1:19

  To you, YHWH, I cry, for fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has scorched all the trees of the field.

• Joel 2:3

  Before it fire devours, and behind it flame blazes; like the garden of Eden is the land before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness; and nothing escapes it.

• Malachi 4:1

  For look, the day is coming, burning like the oven; and all the insolent and all who do wickedness will be stubble; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze, says YHWH Tsevaot, so that it will not leave them root or branch.