ya.tsat describes setting a place or object alight, or being burned by fire.

The verb most often marks an act of setting a city, field, wall, or other target alight; in other forms it describes places, gates, or anger as kindled or burned. The supplied clauses show both the agent who initiates the fire and the affected target that comes to be burning.

1. Setting a place or object alight · dominant

   Hiphil forms identify an agent who initiates fire against a stated target: in Joshua 8:8 the command concerns the captured city, and in Judges 9:49 the people place branches on the stronghold before the APB renders that they “set the stronghold on fire.” In Jeremiah 17:27 and Jeremiah 49:27, first-person sequential perfect forms occur in declarations of fire in Jerusalem's gates and against Damascus's wall.

   Joshua 8:8Joshua 8:19Judges 9:49Jeremiah 17:27Jeremiah 49:27Amos 1:14
2. Being burned or set ablaze · common

   Niphal and Qal forms present the affected result rather than naming a fire-setting agent. In Nehemiah 1:3 the gates of Jerusalem are described as burned with fire, while Jeremiah 46:19 joins Memphis being burned to its becoming desolate; Jeremiah 49:2 speaks of the daughters being set on fire.

   Nehemiah 1:3Nehemiah 2:17Jeremiah 2:15Jeremiah 46:19Jeremiah 49:2Isaiah 33:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously renders the fire action with “set... on fire,” “kindle a fire,” “burned,” and “set on fire.” These renderings confirm the clauses' fire imagery but do not by themselves define each form.