# H3857 לָהַט

לָהַט (lâhaṭ), Strong’s H3857: properly, to lick, i.e. (by implication) to blaze KJV: burn (up), set on fire, flaming, kindle.. Occurs 11 times.

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*lâhaṭ* — properly, to lick, i.e. (by implication) to blaze

KJV: burn (up), set on fire, flaming, kindle.

Occurs 11 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [לָהַט] vb. blaze up, flame
- Qal a flaming fire
- Pi. set ablaze

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 32:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=22) — For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the…
- [Isaiah 42:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/42?v=25) — Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but…
- [Joel 1:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/1?v=19) — LORD, I cry to you, for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of…
- [Joel 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/2?v=3) — A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind…
- [Malachi 3:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/malachi/3?v=19) — “For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The…
- [Psalms 57:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/57?v=5) — My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows…
- [Psalms 83:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/83?v=15) — As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
- [Psalms 97:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/97?v=3) — A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.
- [Psalms 104:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/104?v=4) — He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire.
- [Psalms 106:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/106?v=18) — A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.