Strong's #398: 'akal (pronounced aw-kal')
a primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively):--X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âkal
1) to eat, devour, burn up, feed
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to eat (human subject)
1a2) to eat, devour (of beasts and birds)
1a3) to devour, consume (of fire)
1a4) to devour, slay (of sword)
1a5) to devour, consume, destroy (inanimate subjects i.e., pestilence, drought)
1a6) to devour (of oppression)
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be eaten (by men)
1b2) to be devoured, consumed (of fire)
1b3) to be wasted, destroyed (of flesh)
1c) (Pual)
1c1) to cause to eat, feed with
1c2) to cause to devour
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to feed
1d2) to cause to eat
1e) (Piel)
1e1) consume
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 809 times:
2 Kings 4:8: "that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread."
2 Kings 4:40: "So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they"
2 Kings 4:40: "for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out,"
2 Kings 4:40: "there is death in the pot. And they could not eat"
2 Kings 4:41: "and he said, Pour out that they may eat. And there was no harm"
2 Kings 4:42: "in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat."
2 Kings 4:43: "again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD,"
2 Kings 4:43: "thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave"
2 Kings 4:44: "So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD."
2 Kings 6:22: "bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master."
2 Kings 6:23: "And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to"
2 Kings 6:28: "thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow."
2 Kings 6:28: "thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow."
2 Kings 6:29: "So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day,"
2 Kings 6:29: "thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son."
2 Kings 7:2: "thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof."
2 Kings 7:8: "into tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence"
2 Kings 7:19: "thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof."
2 Kings 9:10: "And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened"
2 Kings 9:34: "And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this"
2 Kings 9:36: "In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:"
2 Kings 18:27: "which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink"
2 Kings 18:31: "me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree,"
2 Kings 19:29: "And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same;"
2 Kings 19:29: "ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits"
2 Kings 23:9: "the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they did eat of the unleavened bread among"
2 Kings 25:29: "his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before"
1 Chronicles 12:39: "David three days, eating and drinking: their brethren had prepared"
1 Chronicles 29:22: " And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness."
2 Chronicles 7:1: "the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the glory"
2 Chronicles 7:13: "or if I command to devour the land, or if I send"
2 Chronicles 18:26: "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed of affliction and with water"
2 Chronicles 28:15: "that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all"
2 Chronicles 30:18: "and Zebulun, cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise"
2 Chronicles 30:22: "that taught the good knowledge and they did eat throughout the feast seven"
2 Chronicles 31:10: "the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left"
Ezra 2:63: "said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till"
Ezra 6:21: "of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,"
Ezra 9:12: "forever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land,"
Ezra 10:6: "the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor"
Nehemiah 2:3: "sepulchers, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?"
Nehemiah 2:13: "the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire."
Nehemiah 5:2: "are many: therefore we take up for them, that we may eat, and live."
Nehemiah 5:14: "that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread"
Nehemiah 7:65: "said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till"
Nehemiah 8:10: "Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions"
Nehemiah 8:12: "And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make"
Nehemiah 9:25: "and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great"
Nehemiah 9:36: "that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold,"
Esther 4:16: "and fast me, and neither eat nor drink three days,"
