צוּת tsûwth — to blaze

pronounced tsooth · Strong's H6702 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Hiph'il

Translated in the KJV as burn.

a primitive root; to blaze.

tsûwth in each stem

Hiph'il 1×

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

אֲצִיתֶ֥נָּה Isa 27:4 Imperfect (yiqtol), 1st person common singular

Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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