יָצַת yatsat

Hebrew word for “to kindle” · Strong’s H3341 · used 29 times in 28 verses

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Meaning

1) to kindle, burn, set on fire;

How it is translated

Glosses given for yatsat in context, with how often each is used:

• will kindle 6
• set on fire 4
• will be kindled 4
• has kindled 3
• will set on fire 2
• have been burned 2
• have they set on fire 1
• has been kindled 1
• burnt 1
• left desolate 1
• has it become desolate? 1
• will be made desolate 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Joshua 8 (2), 2 Samuel 14 (2), 2 Kings 22 (2), Jeremiah 9 (2), Jeremiah 49 (2), Jeremiah 51 (2), Judges 9 (1), Nehemiah 1 (1), Nehemiah 2 (1), Isaiah 9 (1)

Forms

• והצתי 6
• נצתו 4
• ויציתו 2
• הציתו 2
• נצתה 2
• ונצתה 2
• יצתו 2
• תציתו 1
• והציתוה 1
• ויצתו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yatsat more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֵשׁ esh “fire” 21
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 8
• חוֹמָה chomah “wall” 5
• כָּבָה kavah “to quench” 3
• אַרְמוֹן armon “citadel” 3
• בְּלִי beli “without” 3
• יַעַר yaar “wood” 3
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 4
• עִיר ir “city” 5
• חֵמָה chemah “rage” 3
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 5
• רַבָּה rabbah “Rabbah” 2

Key verses

The verses using yatsat that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Kings 22:13 — Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD…
• 2 Kings 22:17 — Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my…
• Nehemiah 1:3 — And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is…
• Isaiah 9:18 — For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the…
• Jeremiah 2:15 — The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
• Jeremiah 9:10 — For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can…
• Jeremiah 17:27 — But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then…
• Jeremiah 32:29 — And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense…
• Jeremiah 43:12 — And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of…
• Lamentations 4:11 — The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
• Ezekiel 20:47 — And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green…
• Amos 1:14 — But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.