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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 - And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - “Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:21 - “And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; 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 have given you all things, even as the green herbs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15 - So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “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 - ‘And if any animal which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - ‘And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:9 - My heritage is to Me like a speckled vulture;
The vultures all around are against her.
Come, assemble all the beasts of the field,
Bring them to devour!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:4 - “Instead, it is thrown into the fire for fuel; the fire devours both ends of it, and its middle is burned. Is it useful for any work?

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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 vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:32 - You shall be fuel for the fire;
Your blood shall be in the midst of the land.
You shall 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 with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - I will leave you in the wilderness,
You and all the fish of your rivers;
You shall fall on the open field;
You shall not be picked up or gathered.[fn]
I have given you as food
To the beasts of the field
And to the birds of the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but 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 require My flock at their hand; I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouths, that they may no longer be food for them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:12 - “Then you shall know that I am the LORD. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 39:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:4 - “You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
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