to burn
ye.qad describes the furnace as burning in the account of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
The attested form repeatedly characterizes the fiery furnace into which people are threatened with being cast, are cast, or from which they emerge. In every occurrence, it is a Qal active participle, feminine singular, determined, used with the furnace in Daniel 3.
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Characterizing the fiery furnace as burning · dominant
The form occurs in the repeated phrase concerning the fiery furnace: threatened punishment in Daniel 3:6 and Daniel 3:11, the king’s renewed warning in Daniel 3:15, and the men’s confession of expected deliverance in Daniel 3:17. The same furnace is described when the three are cast into it in Daniel 3:20, Daniel 3:21, and Daniel 3:23, and when they come out in Daniel 3:26; the APB renders the phrase "burning fiery furnace."
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB consistently presents the relevant furnace phrase as "burning fiery furnace." That wording confirms the clause’s portrayal of the furnace without isolating a separate English equivalent for this form.