It was a fire.
Burned. Consumed in fire. Turned into a fire.
("For if there is a fire in Cain, how long will Assyria destroy you?" - In the wilderness of Kad 22 (the oracle of Balaam), and so: "And yet in her tenth part she shall return, and she shall be to Baal as a grove, and as an oak that is in Shelekh" - Isaiah 6:13, and so: "When all that is left of you is lost, and you shall be to Baal/ for he is in the bosom of God and under his feet" - H.N. Bialik, and so: "All The moveable, every thing/ is ready to be burned" - Shaul Tchernikhovsky/ Baruch from Megenza, and so: "See how the hills of Eshtakad have been burned, and the Syrians have burned/ a foreign vine in my valley" - Nathan Yonatan/ from the Poems of Winter)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הָיָה לְבָעֵר
Definition (Hebrew)
נִשְׂרַף. כַּלָּה בִּשְׂרֵפָה. נֶהְפַּךְ לִבְעֵרָה.
("כִּי אִם יִהְיֶה לְבָעֵר קָיִן עַד מָה אַשּׁוּר תִּשְׁבֶּךָּ"- בְּמִדְבַּר כַּד כב (נְאוּם בִּלְעָם), וְכֵן:"וְעוֹד בָּהּ עֲשִׂרִיָּה וְשָׁבָה וְהָיְתָה לְבָעֵר כָּאֵלָה וְכָאַלּוֹן אֲשֶׁר בְּשַׁלֶּכֶת"- יְשַׁעְיָהוּ ו יג, וְכֵן:"בְּאָבוּד כָּל שָׂרִיד לְךָ וְהָיִיתָ לְבַעֵר/ בַּאֲשֶׁר הוּא בְּחֵיק אֱלֹהִים וְתַחַת שְׁחָקָיו"- ח.נ. בְּיָאלִיק, וְכֵן:"כָּל הַמְּטַלְטְלִים, כָּל דָּבָר/ נָכוֹן לִהְיוֹת לְבַעֵר"- שָׁאוּל טְשֶׁרְנִיחוֹבְסְקִי/ בָּרוּךְ מִמֶּגֶנְצָה, וְכֵן:"רְאֵה אֵיךְ הָיוּ לְבַעֵר גִּבְעוֹלֵי- אֶשְׁתָּקַד וּשְׂרֵפַת/ סוּרִי גֶּפֶן נָכְרִיָּה בְּוָאדִי"- נָתָן יוֹנָתָן/ מִשִּׁירֵי הַחֹרֶף)