אֲזָא ʼăzâʼ — to kindle
Translated in the KJV as heat, hot.
(Aramaic) or אֲזָה (Aramaic); to kindle; (by implication) to heat.
ʼăzâʼ in each stem
Pe'al
Infinitive construct 2Participle (passive) 1
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›