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Strong's #402: 'oklah (pronounced ok-law')

feminine of 401; food:--consume, devour, eat, food, meat.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ôklâh

1) food

1a) food, eating

1b) object of devouring, consuming

1b1) by wild beasts (figurative)

1b2) in fire

1b3) of judgment (figurative)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H401



Usage:

This word is used 18 times:

Genesis 1:29: "yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
Genesis 1:30: "I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so."
Genesis 6:21: "is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food"
Genesis 9:3: "that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you"
Exodus 16:15: "which the LORD hath given you to eat."
Leviticus 11:39: "any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean"
Leviticus 25:6: "And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger"
Jeremiah 12:9: "the beasts of the field, come to devour."
Ezekiel 15:4: "Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both"
Ezekiel 15:6: "which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants"
Ezekiel 21:32: "Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no"
Ezekiel 23:37: "whom they bore unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour"
Ezekiel 29:5: "nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven."
Ezekiel 34:5: "because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field,"
Ezekiel 34:8: "became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field,"
Ezekiel 34:10: "for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not meat"
Ezekiel 35:12: "saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume."
Ezekiel 39:4: "sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured."









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