yakad · burn

What it means

yakad (יָקַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “burn”.

Be kindled.

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 and stay alive like a fire that does not go out.
2. The hearth where a fire burns for cooking or warmth.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• shall be kept burning ×3
• burns ×2
• it will burn ×2
• hearth ×1
• will burn ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2

• Leviticus 6:9

  “Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the instruction for the burnt offering: the burnt offering itself shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.

• Leviticus 6:12

  The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, arrange the burnt offering on it, and offer up in smoke on it the fat of the peace offerings.

• Leviticus 6:13

  Fire shall be kept burning continually on the altar; it shall not go out.

• 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.

• Isaiah 10:16

  Therefore the Lord, YHWH Tsevaot, will send leanness among his stout ones, and under his glory a burning will burn like the burning of fire.

• Isaiah 30:14

  And he will break it as one breaks a potters’ jar, crushed without sparing, and there will not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water from the pool.”

• Isaiah 65:5

  who say, ‘Stay by yourself, do not come near me, for I am holy to you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.

• Jeremiah 15:14

  And I will make your enemies pass through a land that you do not know; for a fire has been kindled in my anger; against you it will burn.”

• Jeremiah 17:4

  And you will let it drop, even by yourself, your inheritance that I gave you; and I will make you serve your enemies in the land that you do not know; for a fire you have kindled in my anger; forever it will burn.