TORCH

A light usually carried in the hand and often consisting either of a burning stick of resinous wood or of a stick wrapped with an absorbent material that has been soaked with oil and ignited.—Gen. 15:17; Judg. 7:16, 20; 15:4; Isa. 62:1; Ezek. 1:13; Dan. 10:6; Nah. 2:4; John 18:3.