a.tam describes burning in Isaiah’s image of wickedness as a fire consuming vegetation.

The attested use depicts burning as the fire-like action attributed to wickedness, followed by the consuming of briers, thorns, and forest thickets in Isaiah 9:18.

1. Burning like a consuming fire · dominant

   In Isaiah 9:18, the Niphal perfect masculine singular form occurs in the clause portraying wickedness as fire; the APB renders the verse, “Wickedness burns like a fire,” and continues with its consuming briers, thorns, and forest thickets.

   Isaiah 9:18

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Isaiah 9:18, the APB presents the clause as “Wickedness burns like a fire.” Its exact English wording cannot isolate the term beyond the verse’s fire-and-consumption image.