Strong's #3341: yatsath (pronounced yaw-tsath')

a primitive root; to burn or set on fire; figuratively, to desolate:--burn (up), be desolate, set (on) fire ((fire)), kindle.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yâtsath

1) to kindle, burn, set on fire

1a) (Qal) to kindle

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be kindled

1b2) to be left desolate

1c) (Hiphil) to set on fire, kindle

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 29 times:

 

Joshua 8:8: "when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment"
Joshua 8:19: "and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire."
Judges 9:49: "Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire"
2 Samuel 14:30: "and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set"
2 Samuel 14:30: "it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire."
2 Samuel 14:31: "unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?"
2 Kings 22:13: "is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not"
2 Kings 22:17: "with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not"
Nehemiah 1:3: "of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire."
Nehemiah 2:17: "Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up"
Isaiah 9:18: "the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up"
Isaiah 33:12: "of lime: cut up shall they be burned in the fire."
Jeremiah 2:15: "his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant."
Jeremiah 9:10: "of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through"
Jeremiah 9:12: "what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?"
Jeremiah 11:16: "with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken."
Jeremiah 17:27: "of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces"
Jeremiah 21:14: "you according to the fruit of your doings, saith and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour"
Jeremiah 32:29: "this shall come and set fire on this city,"
Jeremiah 43:12: " And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself"
Jeremiah 46:19: "for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant."
Jeremiah 49:2: "and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir"
Jeremiah 49:27: " And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, the palaces of Ben-hadad."
Jeremiah 50:32: "and fall, and none and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all"
Jeremiah 51:30: "hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken."
Jeremiah 51:58: "shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor"
Lamentations 4:11: "his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations"
Ezekiel 20:47: "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, the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day"