יְקַד
to burn
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Every verse where H3345 appears — 8 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 8 verses
- Daniel 3:6 יָקִֽדְתָּֽ/א Qal ptcp.act fs det + ptcl def.art and whoever doesn't fall down and worships shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:11 יָקִֽדְתָּֽ/א Qal ptcp.act fs det + ptcl def.art and whoever doesn't fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:15 יָקִֽדְתָּ֑/א Qal ptcp.act fs det + ptcl def.art Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to you fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
- Daniel 3:17 יָקִֽדְתָּ֛/א Qal ptcp.act fs det + ptcl def.art If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
- Daniel 3:20 יָקִֽדְתָּֽ/א Qal ptcp.act fs det + ptcl def.art He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, [and] to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:21 יָקִֽדְתָּֽ/א Qal ptcp.act fs det + ptcl def.art Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:23 יָֽקִדְתָּ֖/א Qal ptcp.act fs det + ptcl def.art These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:26 יָקִֽדְתָּ/א֒ Qal ptcp.act fs det + ptcl def.art Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth out of the midst of the fire.
About this entry
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יקד (yᵉqad) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to burn.” Daniel dominates its distribution — 8 of 8 verses. Spanning 8 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Daniel 3:6. The King James Version usually renders it “burning,” while modern versions prefer “blazing” (Berean Standard Bible) — see the renderings breakdown. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3345 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 8 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Burning 8×
- American Standard Version: Burning 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Blazing 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Blazing 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3345 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3345 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3345 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3345 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Peal) to burn
Word origin
Derived from יקד (yâqad) (H3344) — to burn.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יָקַד
- [to penetrate,] to burn; to be on fire. Yalk. Deut. 808 אתמול יָקְדוּ גְדִישָׁיו (not גדישי) the other day their stacks were on fire.—V. מוֹקֵד.
- to be kept burning; to be burnt into. Ḥull. 115ᵃ; Kidd. 56ᵇ; Y. Pes. II, beg. 28ᶜ (ref. to Deut. XXII, 9) פן תק̇ד̇ש̇ פן תּוּק̇ד̇ אש̇ ‘lest it may become sacred (forbidden) property’, lest a fire must be lighted (for burning it). Part. מוּקָד. Tanḥ. Tsav. 14 האש המ׳ על המזבח וכ׳ the fire entertained on the altar will atone for him. Yalk. Lev. 479, end, v. infra. e.g. Deuteronomy 22:9
- to burn itself into. Lev. R. s. 7 (ref. to Lev. VI, 2) it does not say ‘the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it, but in it, האש היתה מִתּוֹקֶדֶת בו the fire was burning itself into it (the altar); Yalk. l. c. המזבח היה מוּקָד באש the altar was burned into by the fire. Lev. R. l. c. קרוב … היתה האש מִתּוֹקֶדֶת בו וכ׳ for nearly one hundred and sixteen years was the fire burning itself into it, (and yet) its wood was not consumed &c. e.g. Leviticus 6:2
יְקַד
- ; also to set on fire. Targ. Is. X, 16. Targ. Y. Ex. III, 2 יָקִיד (Var. יַקִּיד) being burnt into. Targ. Y. II ib. 3.—Y. Yeb. XV, 15ᵃ [read:] ערקתא יקְדַּת וספסלה יקד the strap is on fire (heated) and the bench is on fire. Ib. לא ערקתא יקדת וכ׳ the strap was not heated &c. Cant. R. to III, 4, v. infra. Snh. 33ᵇ, v. מוֹקְדָא I.
- to set on fire, burn. Targ. Lev. VIII, 17. Targ. II Sam. V, 21 (h. text וישאם, v. יְקוֹד); a. fr.—Pesik. Dibré, p. 112ᵇ וא׳ היכלי he set my Temple on fire. Lam. R. introd., end סליק עפרא יקידא ואוקיד דרעיה glowing dust came up and burnt his arm; Pesik. l. c. p. 114ᵃ; Y. Taan. IV, 69ᵇ וא׳ זרעא and burnt the seed. Lam. R. to I, 13 קרתא יקידא אוֹקִידְתָּא thou hast set on fire a burning city (v. טְחַן); Cant. R. to III, 4 דרא יקידא יַקְּדַּת (Pa.), v. דָּרָא I.
- to be burnt. Targ. Lev. X, 16. Targ. II Sam. XXIII, 7; a. fr.
- to be on fire. Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᶜ top קבריה דרבך א׳ thy teacher’s (Elisha’s) grave is on fire.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H3345 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יָקִֽדְתָּֽ/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:6 | 4 |
| יָֽקִדְתָּ֖/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:23 | 1 |
| יָקִֽדְתָּ/א֒ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:26 | 1 |
| יָקִֽדְתָּ֑/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:15 | 1 |
| יָקִֽדְתָּ֛/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:17 | 1 |
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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