יְקַד

yekad · burn

Aramaic word · Strong’s number H3345 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

yekad (יְקַד) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “burn”.

To burn, to blaze (Aramaic).

How to say it

ye·kad

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 be lit and give off flames, like the furnace of Babylon (Aramaic).

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Where it appears

  • Daniel 3:6

    And whoever does not fall down and bow down at that very moment will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of fire blazing.”

  • Daniel 3:11

    and whoever does not fall down and bow down shall be thrown into the midst of the furnace of fire blazing.

  • Daniel 3:15

    Now if you are ready at the moment that you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the zither, the sambuca, the psaltery, and the bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and bow down to the image that I made, good; but if you do not bow down, at that very moment you will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of fire blazing; and who is the Elah who will deliver you from my hands?”

  • Daniel 3:17

    If it is so, our Elah whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of fire blazing, and from your hand, O king, he will deliver us.

  • Daniel 3:20

    And to certain men, mighty men of strength who were in his army, he said to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, to throw them into the furnace of fire blazing.

  • Daniel 3:21

    Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, and their caps, and their other garments, and were thrown into the midst of the furnace of fire blazing.

  • Daniel 3:23

    And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell bound into the midst of the furnace of fire blazing.

  • Daniel 3:26

    Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the furnace of fire blazing; he answered and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of Elah Illaya, come out and come!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the midst of the fire.