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:
Job 1:4: "and sent and called sisters to eat and to drink with"
Job 1:13: "a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest"
Job 1:16: "and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone"
Job 1:18: "and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's"
Job 5:5: "Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns,"
Job 6:6: "Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste"
Job 13:28: "consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten."
Job 15:34: "of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery."
Job 18:13: " It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength."
Job 18:13: "of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength."
Job 20:26: "a fire not blown shall consume with him that is left in his tabernacle."
Job 21:25: "in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure."
Job 22:20: "cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth."
Job 31:8: "Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out."
Job 31:12: "For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all"
Job 31:17: " Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;"
Job 31:17: "myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;"
Job 31:39: "If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:"
Job 34:3: "words, as the mouth tasteth meat."
Job 40:15: "which I made with thee; he eateth grass"
Job 42:11: "and all they that had been of his acquaintance and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned"
Psalms 14:4: "of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat and call"
Psalms 14:4: "knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat and call not upon the LORD."
Psalms 18:8: "out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled"
Psalms 21:9: "shall swallow them up in his wrath, shall devour"
Psalms 22:26: "The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live"
Psalms 22:29: "All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust"
Psalms 27:2: "and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, stumbled"
Psalms 41:9: "mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel"
Psalms 50:3: "and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very round about"
Psalms 50:13: " Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?"
Psalms 53:4: "of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread:"
Psalms 53:4: "knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: called upon God."
Psalms 59:15: "Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied."
Psalms 69:9: "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon"
Psalms 78:24: "And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven."
Psalms 78:25: "Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full."
Psalms 78:29: " So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;"
Psalms 78:45: "He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed"
Psalms 78:63: "The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage."
Psalms 79:7: "For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place."
Psalms 80:5: " Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure."
Psalms 81:16: " He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied"
Psalms 102:4: "like grass; so that I forget to eat to eat my bread."
Psalms 102:9: "For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,"
Psalms 105:35: " And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground."
Psalms 105:35: "all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground."
Psalms 106:20: "their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass."
Psalms 106:28: "They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead."
Psalms 127:2: "early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: he giveth"
