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.—Ge 15:17; Jg 7:16, 20; 15:4; Isa 62:1; Eze 1:13; Da 10:6; Na 2:4; Joh 18:3.