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Lexicon :: Strong's H398 - 'āḵal

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אָכַל
Transliteration
'āḵal
Pronunciation
aw-kal'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 85

Strong’s Definitions

אָכַל ʼâkal, aw-kal'; a primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively):—× at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, × freely, × in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, × quite.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 810x

The KJV translates Strong's H398 in the following manner: eat (604x), devour (111x), consume (32x), miscellaneous (55x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 810x
The KJV translates Strong's H398 in the following manner: eat (604x), devour (111x), consume (32x), miscellaneous (55x).
  1. to eat, devour, burn up, feed

    1. (Qal)

      1. to eat (human subject)

      2. to eat, devour (of beasts and birds)

      3. to devour, consume (of fire)

      4. to devour, slay (of sword)

      5. to devour, consume, destroy (inanimate subjects - ie, pestilence, drought)

      6. to devour (of oppression)

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be eaten (by men)

      2. to be devoured, consumed (of fire)

      3. to be wasted, destroyed (of flesh)

    3. (Pual)

      1. to cause to eat, feed with

      2. to cause to devour

    4. (Hiphil)

      1. to feed

      2. to cause to eat

    5. (Piel)

      1. consume

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָכַל ʼâkal, aw-kal'; a primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively):—× at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, × freely, × in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, × quite.
STRONGS H398: Abbreviations
אָכַל 806 verb eat (Arabic أَكَلَ, Assyrian akâlu DlW, Aramaic H399 אֲבַל, LfkAe  ) —
Qal Perfect אָכַל Exodus 34:28 +; אָֽכְלָה Numbers 21:28 +; etc. Imperfect יֹאכַל Genesis 49:27 +; וַיּאֹ֫כַל Genesis 25:34 +; וַיּאֹכַ֑ל Genesis 3:6 +; יאֹכֵ֑ל Leviticus 21:22 +; אֹכַל Genesis 24:33 +; וָֽאֹכַ֫ל Genesis 27:33; וְאֹכֵ֑ל Isaiah 44:19; וָֽאֹכֵל Genesis 3:12, 13; 3rd person plural יאֹכְלוּ Genesis 32:33 +; יאֹכֵ֑לוּ Deuteronomy 18:18 +; etc. (for יוֺכְלוּ Ezekiel 42:5 read יוצלו, יאצלו Greek Version of the LXX Ew Co); suffix יאֹכְלֶנּוּ Leviticus 7:6 +; תּאֹבַלְכֶם Isaiah 33:11, etc., probably also תְּאָכְלֵהוּ Job 20:26, either as secondary form from תּאֹ׳ (Ew§ 253 Di) or textual error (Ges§ 68. 1) > Pi., Thes KöI, 389; or Po`el, Ki De MV; Imperative אֱכוֺל 1 Kings 18:41 +, etc.; Infinitive absolute אָכוֺל Genesis 2:16 +; construct אֲכֹל Numbers 26:10 + 2 times; לֶאֱכֹל Genesis 24:33 +; לְאָכְלָה Jeremiah 12:9; Participle אֹכֵל (אוֺכֵל) Genesis 39:6 +, אֹכֶלֶת Exodus 24:17 +, etc. —
1. eat, human subject Genesis 3:11, 18 + often; mostly with accusative Exodus 16:35 +; also followed by מִן־ (eat of, — some of, — or from) Exodus 34:15; Ruth 2:14 +; followed by בְּ (eat of or at) Exodus 12:43f; absolute Deuteronomy 2:6 +; as act of worship Genesis 31:54 (compare Genesis 46:1) Exodus 18:12; Exodus 24:11; Exodus 34:15; Deuteronomy 12:7, 18; Deuteronomy 14:23, 26 +; compare of priests Exodus 29:32; Leviticus 10:13 +; compare אָבַל אֶל־הֶהָרִים Ezekiel 18:6, 11, 15; Ezekiel 22:9 + Ezekiel 33:25 עַל־הַדָּם Co עַל־הֶהָרִים; (but RSRel. Semitic i. 324 N would emend first 4 by last); eat up, finish eating Genesis 43:2 (with בלה) 1 Kings 13:28 +; אָכַל לֶחֶם = take a meal Genesis 43:25; Exodus 2:20; 1 Samuel 20:24; Jeremiah 41:1 +; so א׳ alone Genesis 43:16; 1 Samuel 20:5 +; לֶחֶם א׳ = eat, get food Genesis 3:19; 2 Kings 4:8 +; Amos 7:12 (i.e. spend one's life) compare Ecclesiastes 5:16; ל׳ לֹא א׳ i.e. fast 1 Samuel 28:20; 1 Samuel 30:12; Ezra 10:6 compare Daniel 10:3; figurative אֶת־בְּשָׂרוֺ א׳ Ecclesiastes 4:5 (i.e. waste away); eat words Jeremiah 15:16 (i.e. eagerly receive); of adultery, Proverbs 30:20 אָֽוֶן׃ לֹא־פָעַלְתִּי וְאָֽמְרָה פִּ֑יהָ וּמָֽחֲתָה אָֽכְלָה; eat (taste) good fortune, בַּטּוֺב א׳ Job 21:25; לְמִּי אָבְלוֺ according to his eating, i.e. according to his needs in eating Exodus 12:4; Exodus 16:16, 18 also Exodus 16:21; compare Job 20:21 & below אָכְלָה; אָכַל הַפְּרִי 2 Kings 19:29; Amos 9:14, of peaceful enjoyment of results of labour; figurative of receiving consequences of action, good or bad Proverbs 1:31; Proverbs 18:21; Hosea 10:13 compare אֶת־כַּסְפֵּנוּ גַּם־אָכוֺל וַיּאֹכַל Genesis 31:15 i.e. he has reaped all the benefit, compare Hosea 7:9; figurative of mourner, אֵפֶר כַּלֶּחֶם אָכָ֑לְתִּי Psalm 102:10 (compare Psalm 80:6 Hiph., & Assyrian akâl al âkul, bikîtum kurmatî = food I ate not, weeping (was) my refreshment HptASKT 166 f. Obsev. 1. 21, 22 ZimBP 34. 42); of gods, partaking of sacrifices Deuteronomy 32:38; figurative = destroy Deuteronomy 7:16 (compare Numbers 14:9); compare Jeremiah 10:25; Jeremiah 30:16; Jeremiah 50:7; Hosea 7:7.
2. of beasts, birds, etc., eat, devour; Genesis 37:20, 33; Genesis 40:17, 19; 1 Kings 13:28; 1 Kings 14:11; 1 Kings 16:4; 1 Kings 21:23, 24; Hosea 2:14 +; specifically of locusts Joel 1:4; Joel 2:25; 2 Chronicles 7:13 compare Amos 4:9; moth Job 13:28; flies Psalm 78:45; worms Deuteronomy 28:39; also Ezekiel 19:3, 6 (of Israel under figure of lion), compare Jeremiah 50:7, 17; Jeremiah 51:34; also Hosea 13:8 (of י׳ under fig, of lion), Ezekiel 22:25 (נֶפֶשׁ אָכָ֑לוּ, of false prophets under figure of lion).
3. figurative of fire, devour, consume Leviticus 6:3 (followed by 2 accusative consume offering to ashes) Nahum 3:13; Isaiah 5:24 (in simile), particular of fire from י׳ Leviticus 10:2; Leviticus 16:25; Judges 9:15f 1 Kings 18:38; 2 Kings 1:10, 12, 14; 2 Chronicles 7:1; compare Amos 1:4, 7, 10, 12, 14; Amos 2:2, 5; Amos 5:6 +; Deuteronomy 5:22 of fire at Sinai; of י׳ as fire (in judgment) Deuteronomy 4:24 אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֵשׁ אֹכְלָה הוּא כִּי י׳; compare Deuteronomy 9:3; Isaiah 10:17 (|| בּער) Isaiah 30:27, 30; Isaiah 33:14 (|| מוֺקְדֵי עוֺלָם).
5. in general devour, consume, destroy (inanimate subject) of drought Genesis 31:40; of pestilence Ezekiel 7:15; of woods 2 Samuel 18:8; compare Leviticus 26:38 וְאָֽכְלָה אֶתְכֶם אֶרֶץ אֹיְבֵיכֶם; of הַבּשֶׁת Jeremiah 3:24 (see בּשֶׁת).
6. figurative of oppression, devour the poor, etc. Proverbs 30:14; Habakkuk 3:14 compare Psalm 14:4; of bitter enmity לֶאֱכֹל אֶת־בְּשָׂרִי Psalm 27:2. (compare Job 19:22).
Niph. Perfect וְנֶאֱבַל consecutive Exodus 22:5 Imperfect יֵאָכֵל Genesis 6:21 +; וַיֵּאָכֵ֫ל Numbers 12:12, etc.; Infinitive absolute הֵאָבֹל Leviticus 7:18; Leviticus 19:7; Participle feminine נֶאֱכֶ֫לֶת Leviticus 11:47; —
2. be devoured by fire, consumed Zephaniah 1:18; Zephaniah 3:8; Zechariah 9:4; Ezekiel 23:25.
3. be wasted, destroyed, of flesh Numbers 12:12; Jeremiah 30:16.
Pu. Perfect אֻכְּלוּ be consumed with fire Nehemiah 2:3, 13 compare Nahum 1:10 (figurative); so Participle אֻכָּל (= מְאֻכָּל Ew§ 169 d) Exodus 3:2; by sword Isaiah 1:20 תְּאֻכְּלוּ.
Hiph. Perfect 2nd person masculine singular suffix הֶאֱכַלְתָּם Psalm 80:6, וְהַאֲכַלְתִּ֫י Isaiah 49:26; suffix וְהַאֲכַלְתִּיךָ consecutive Isaiah 58:14; הֶאֱכַלְתִּיח Ezekiel 16:19; וְהַאֲכַלְתִּים consecutive Jeremiah 19:9; Imperfect suffix יַאֲכִלֵנוּ Numbers 11:4, 18, etc.; 2nd person masculine singular jussive [?] תַּאֲכֵל; 1st person singular אוֺכִיל Hosea 11:4; Imperative הַאֲכִילֵהוּ Proverbs 25:21, etc.; Infinitive לְהָכִיל Ezekiel 21:33 (but Co לההל, which see); Participle מַאֲבִיל Jeremiah 23:15, etc.; —
1. cause to eat, feed with, followed by 2 accusative subject mostly י׳; Exodus 16:32; Deuteronomy 8:3, 16; Ezekiel 3:2; Jeremiah 19:9; absolute Hosea 11:4; compare Numbers 11:4, 18; figurative Jeremiah 9:14; Jeremiah 23:15; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 58:14; Ezekiel 16:19; also Psalm 80:6 הֶאֱבַלְתָּם לֶחֶם דִּמְעָ֑ה (compare Psalm 102:10 Qal above); followed by accusative of person + מן Psalm 81:17, but also subject man Proverbs 25:21; 1 Kings 22:27; 2 Chronicles 18:26 וְהַאֲכִלֻהוּ לֶחֶם לַ֫חַץ of prison fare; followed by accusative of person only 2 Chronicles 28:15, compare Ezekiel 2:3.
2. cause to devour, object sword Ezekiel 21:33 [Ezekiel 21:28] (but on text see Co).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:16; 3:6; 3:11; 3:12; 3:13; 3:18; 3:19; 6:21; 6:21; 24:33; 24:33; 25:34; 27:33; 31:15; 31:40; 31:54; 37:20; 37:33; 39:6; 40:17; 40:19; 43:2; 43:16; 43:25; 46:1; 49:27

Exodus

2:20; 3:2; 12:4; 12:16; 12:43; 12:46; 13:3; 13:7; 16:16; 16:18; 16:21; 16:32; 16:35; 18:12; 21:28; 22:5; 24:11; 24:17; 29:32; 29:34; 34:15; 34:15; 34:28

Leviticus

6:3; 6:9; 6:16; 6:19; 6:23; 7:6; 7:6; 7:15; 7:16; 7:18; 7:18; 7:19; 10:2; 10:13; 11:13; 11:34; 11:41; 11:47; 11:47; 16:25; 17:13; 19:6; 19:7; 19:7; 19:23; 21:22; 22:30; 26:38

Numbers

11:4; 11:4; 11:18; 11:18; 12:12; 12:12; 14:9; 21:28; 26:10

Deuteronomy

2:6; 4:24; 5:22; 7:16; 8:3; 8:16; 9:3; 12:7; 12:18; 12:22; 14:23; 14:26; 18:18; 28:39; 32:38; 32:42

Judges

9:15

Ruth

2:14

1 Samuel

20:5; 20:24; 28:20; 30:12

2 Samuel

11:25; 18:8; 18:8; 22:26

1 Kings

13:28; 13:28; 14:11; 16:4; 18:38; 18:41; 21:23; 21:24; 22:27

2 Kings

1:10; 1:12; 1:14; 4:8; 19:29

2 Chronicles

7:1; 7:13; 18:26; 28:15

Ezra

10:6

Nehemiah

2:3; 2:13

Job

6:6; 13:28; 19:22; 20:21; 20:26; 21:25

Psalms

14:4; 27:2; 78:45; 80:6; 80:6; 80:6; 102:10; 102:10

Proverbs

1:31; 18:21; 25:21; 25:21; 30:14; 30:20

Ecclesiastes

4:5; 5:16

Isaiah

1:7; 1:20; 5:24; 10:17; 30:27; 30:30; 33:11; 33:14; 44:19; 49:26; 49:26; 58:14; 58:14

Jeremiah

2:30; 3:24; 8:16; 9:14; 10:25; 12:9; 12:12; 15:16; 19:9; 19:9; 23:15; 23:15; 24:2; 24:3; 24:8; 29:17; 30:16; 30:16; 41:1; 50:7; 50:7; 50:17; 51:34

Ezekiel

2:3; 3:2; 7:15; 16:19; 16:19; 18:6; 18:11; 18:15; 19:3; 19:6; 21:28; 22:9; 22:25; 23:25; 33:25; 42:5; 45:21

Daniel

10:3

Hosea

2:14; 7:7; 7:9; 10:13; 11:4; 11:4; 11:6; 13:8

Joel

1:4; 2:25

Amos

1:4; 1:7; 1:10; 1:12; 1:14; 2:2; 2:5; 4:9; 5:6; 7:12; 9:14

Nahum

1:10; 3:13

Habakkuk

3:14

Zephaniah

1:18; 3:8

Zechariah

9:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H398 matches the Hebrew אָכַל ('āḵal),
which occurs 52 times in 44 verses in 'Exo' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:20 - “Then where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave him there? Invite him to come and eat with us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:2 - There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:5 - They will cover the land so that you won’t be able to see the ground. They will devour what little is left of your crops after the hailstorm, including all the trees growing in the fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Raise your hand over the land of Egypt to bring on the locusts. Let them cover the land and devour every plant that survived the hailstorm.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:15 - For the locusts covered the whole country and darkened the land. They devoured every plant in the fields and all the fruit on the trees that had survived the hailstorm. Not a single leaf was left on the trees and plants throughout the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:7 - They are to take some of the blood and smear it on the sides and top of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the animal.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:8 - That same night they must roast the meat over a fire and eat it along with bitter salad greens and bread made without yeast.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:9 - Do not eat any of the meat raw or boiled in water. The whole animal—including the head, legs, and internal organs—must be roasted over a fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11 - “These are your instructions for eating this meal: Be fully dressed,[fn] wear your sandals, and carry your walking stick in your hand. Eat the meal with urgency, for this is the LORD’s Passover.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:15 - For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. On the first day of the festival, remove every trace of yeast from your homes. Anyone who eats bread made with yeast during the seven days of the festival will be cut off from the community of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:16 - On the first day of the festival and again on the seventh day, all the people must observe an official day for holy assembly. No work of any kind may be done on these days except in the preparation of food.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - The bread you eat must be made without yeast from the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day of that month.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:19 - During those seven days, there must be no trace of yeast in your homes. Anyone who eats anything made with yeast during this week will be cut off from the community of Israel. These regulations apply both to the foreigners living among you and to the native-born Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:20 - During those days you must not eat anything made with yeast. Wherever you live, eat only bread made without yeast.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the instructions for the festival of Passover. No outsiders are allowed to eat the Passover meal.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:44 - But any slave who has been purchased may eat it if he has been circumcised.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - Temporary residents and hired servants may not eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:46 - Each Passover lamb must be eaten in one house. Do not carry any of its meat outside, and do not break any of its bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - “If there are foreigners living among you who want to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, let all their males be circumcised. Only then may they celebrate the Passover with you like any native-born Israelite. But no uncircumcised male may ever eat the Passover meal.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - So Moses said to the people, “This is a day to remember forever—the day you left Egypt, the place of your slavery. Today the LORD has brought you out by the power of his mighty hand. (Remember, eat no food containing yeast.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:6 - For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. Then on the seventh day, celebrate a feast to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:7 - Eat bread without yeast during those seven days. In fact, there must be no yeast bread or any yeast at all found within the borders of your land during this time.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:7 - In the greatness of your majesty,
you overthrow those who rise against you.
You unleash your blazing fury;
it consumes them like straw.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - “If only the LORD had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:8 - Then Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat in the evening and bread to satisfy you in the morning, for he has heard all your complaints against him. What have we done? Yes, your complaints are against the LORD, not against us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:12 - “I have heard the Israelites’ complaints. Now tell them, ‘In the evening you will have meat to eat, and in the morning you will have all the bread you want. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:25 - Moses said, “Eat this food today, for today is a Sabbath day dedicated to the LORD. There will be no food on the ground today.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: Fill a two-quart container with manna to preserve it for your descendants. Then later generations will be able to see the food I gave you in the wilderness when I set you free from Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35 - So the people of Israel ate manna for forty years until they arrived at the land where they would settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:12 - Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God. Aaron and all the elders of Israel came out and joined him in a sacrificial meal in God’s presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28 - “If an ox[fn] gores a man or woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its flesh may not be eaten. In such a case, however, the owner will not be held liable.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:6 - “If you are burning thornbushes and the fire gets out of control and spreads into another person’s field, destroying the sheaves or the uncut grain or the whole crop, the one who started the fire must pay for the lost crop.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:31 - “You must be my holy people. Therefore, do not eat any animal that has been torn up and killed by wild animals. Throw it to the dogs.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - but let the land be renewed and lie uncultivated during the seventh year. Then let the poor among you harvest whatever grows on its own. Leave the rest for wild animals to eat. The same applies to your vineyards and olive groves.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:15 - First, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, just as I commanded you. Celebrate this festival annually at the appointed time in early spring, in the month of Abib,[fn] for that is the anniversary of your departure from Egypt. No one may appear before me without an offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:11 - And though these nobles of Israel gazed upon God, he did not destroy them. In fact, they ate a covenant meal, eating and drinking in his presence!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:17 - To the Israelites at the foot of the mountain, the glory of the LORD appeared at the summit like a consuming fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:32 - Then Aaron and his sons will eat this meat, along with the bread in the basket, at the Tabernacle entrance.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:33 - They alone may eat the meat and bread used for their purification[fn] in the ordination ceremony. No one else may eat them, for these things are set apart and holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:34 - If any of the ordination meat or bread remains until the morning, it must be burned. It may not be eaten, for it is holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:6 - The people got up early the next morning to sacrifice burnt offerings and peace offerings. After this, they celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:15 - “You must not make a treaty of any kind with the people living in the land. They lust after their gods, offering sacrifices to them. They will invite you to join them in their sacrificial meals, and you will go with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:18 - “You must celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, just as I commanded you. Celebrate this festival annually at the appointed time in early spring, in the month of Abib,[fn] for that is the anniversary of your departure from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - Moses remained there on the mountain with the LORD forty days and forty nights. In all that time he ate no bread and drank no water. And the LORD[fn] wrote the terms of the covenant—the Ten Commandments[fn]—on the stone tablets.
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