H6702 H6702
to kindle, burn, set on fire (causative); I would set it ablaze
This Hiphil verb means to kindle or set on fire, to cause something to burn. In Isaiah 27:4, God says that if briers and thorns confront him, he would march against them and burn them up together. It's a verb of decisive, consuming action—not accidental fire but deliberate incineration. The image is of divine judgment as fire that utterly destroys opposition, leaving nothing but ash. It's forceful, final, and complete.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Isaiah 27:4 has God declare that he would set thorns and briers ablaze if they stood against him. The Spanish "los quemaré" (I will burn them) emphasizes the first-person agency. This is God as warrior, using fire as a weapon to clear away what opposes his vineyard (Israel). The verb conveys both power and totality—nothing survives the divine fire. 1×
AR["أُحْرِقُهُمَا"]·ben["আগুন-লাগাব-এটাকে"]·DE["[אציתנה]"]·EN["I-would-burn-it"]·FR["[אציתנה]"]·heb["אציתנה"]·HI["जला-दूंगा-उसे"]·ID["Aku-akan-membakarnya"]·IT["[אציתנה]"]·jav["kawula-obong"]·KO["태우리니"]·PT["a-incendiarei"]·RU["сожгу-их"]·ES["los-quemaré"]·SW["ningeiteketeza"]·TR["yakarim-onu"]·urd["جلاؤں-گا-اُنہیں"]
Related Senses
H4325 1. water, waters (582×)H6965b 1. Qal: to rise, arise, get up (432×)H2091 1. gold (the metal) (389×)H0068 1. stone, rock (material/object) (267×)H5178a 1. bronze/copper as metal (131×)H6083 1. dust, dry earth, soil (108×)H8313 1. burn, set fire to (94×)H2734 1. anger was kindled (82×)G5204 1. water (80×)H2822 1. darkness, absence of light (80×)G5457 1. light (illumination) (71×)G0450 1. rise, stand up (physical) (69×)H6965b 2. Qal: to stand firm, endure, be valid (50×)H6999a 2. burn sacrifice on altar (Hifil) (45×)H5553 1. rock, cliff (physical feature) (43×)H6965b 4. Hifil: to establish, confirm (covenant/kingdom/word) (40×)H1197a 1. burn, be on fire (39×)H4306 1. rain, showers (38×)H1653 1. rain, precipitation (34×)G4655 1. darkness (30×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [יָצַת] vb. kindle, burn (intr.) (NH id. (rare))— Qal Impf. 3 fs. וַתִּצַּת Is 9:17; יִצַּ֑תּוּ 33:12 Je 51:58 (Köi 431); 3 fpl. תִּצַּתְנָה Je 49:2;—kindle, intr., fig. of wickedness, Is 9:17; sq. בָּאֵשׁ be kindled with fire (= set on fire), of thorns (in sim.) 33:12, Je 49:2 (of dependent towns and villages of Rabbah, under fig. of daughters), 51:58 (of gates of Babylon). Niph. Pf. נִצְּתָה…