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Lexicon :: Strong's H402 - 'āḵlâ

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אָכְלָה
Transliteration
'āḵlâ
Pronunciation
ok-law'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 85b

Strong’s Definitions

אׇכְלָה ʼoklâh, ok-law'; feminine of H401; food:—consume, devour, eat, food, meat.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's H402 in the following manner: meat (8x), devour (3x), fuel (3x), eat (2x), consume (1x), food (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x
The KJV translates Strong's H402 in the following manner: meat (8x), devour (3x), fuel (3x), eat (2x), consume (1x), food (1x).

  1. food

    1. food, eating

    2. object of devouring, consuming

      1. by wild beasts (figurative)

      2. in fire

      3. of judgment (figurative)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אׇכְלָה ʼoklâh, ok-law'; feminine of H401; food:—consume, devour, eat, food, meat.
STRONGS H402: Abbreviations
אָכְלָה 17 noun feminine food, eating (with some verbal force, compare DrJPh xi. 217) only P, & Ezekiel; always לְאָכְלָה.
1. especially in phrase like לָכֶם יִהְיֶה לְאָ׳ Genesis 1:29; Genesis 6:21; Genesis 9:3; Leviticus 11:39; so Leviticus 25:6 וְהָיְתָה שַׁבַּת הָאָרֶץ לָכֶם לְאָבְלָה compare נָתַן לְא׳ Genesis 1:30; Exodus 16:15.
2. devouring, by wild beasts, only figurative of ravaged people Ezekiel 29:5; Ezekiel 34:5, 8, 10; Ezekiel 39:4, compare Ezekiel 35:12.
3. consumimg, in fire Ezekiel 15:4, 6, of fire-sacrifice of children Ezekiel 23:37; figurative of judgment of י׳ Ezekiel 21:37; (compare also infinitive of אָכַל).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:29; 1:30; 6:21; 9:3

Exodus

16:15

Leviticus

11:39; 25:6

Ezekiel

15:4; 15:6; 23:37; 29:5; 34:5; 34:8; 34:10; 35:12; 39:4

H402

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H402 matches the Hebrew אָכְלָה ('āḵlâ),
which occurs 18 times in 18 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - So God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of the entire earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - and to all the animals on the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that moves on the ground—to everything in which there is the breath of life—I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so [because He commanded it].

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:21 - “Also take with you every kind of food that is edible, and you shall collect and store it; and it shall be food for you and for them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; I give you everything, as I gave you the green plants and vegetables.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15 - When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “[fn]What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39 -

‘If one of the animals that you may eat dies [of natural causes], whoever touches its carcass becomes unclean until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - ‘And all of you shall have for food whatever the [untilled] land produces during its Sabbath year; yourself, and your male and female slaves, your hired servant, and the foreigners who reside among you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:9 -

“Is My inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to Me [unlike the others]?

Are the birds of prey (enemies) surrounding her on every side?

Go, gather all the [wild] beasts of the field;

Bring them to devour [her]!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:4 - “If it has been thrown into the fire for fuel, and the fire has consumed both of its ends and the middle section has been charred, is it suitable or useful for anything?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:6 - “Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Like the wood of the grapevine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the people of Jerusalem;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:32 - ‘You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I the LORD have spoken.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:37 - “For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery [against Me] with their idols and have even forced their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire as [an offering of] food to them (idols).

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 -

“I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers;

You will fall on the open field; and you will not be gathered up or buried.

I have given you as food to the [wild] animals of the earth and the birds of the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:5 - “They were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the predators of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “certainly because My flock has become prey, My flock has even become food for every predator of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand My flock from them and make them stop tending the flock, so that the shepherds cannot feed themselves anymore. I will rescue My flock from their mouth, so that they will not be food for them.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:12 - “Then you will know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all your scornful speeches which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been made a wasteland; they have been given to us as food.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 39:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:4 - “You will fall [dead] on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the nations who are with you. I will give you to every kind of predatory bird and animal of the field as food.
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