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:
Psalms 128:2: "For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well"
Proverbs 1:31: " Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices."
Proverbs 13:2: "A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors"
Proverbs 13:25: "The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want."
Proverbs 18:21: "are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit"
Proverbs 23:7: "in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, he to thee; but his heart is not"
Proverbs 23:8: "The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words."
Proverbs 24:13: "My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to"
Proverbs 25:16: "Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit"
Proverbs 25:21: "thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water"
Proverbs 25:27: "It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory."
Proverbs 27:18: "Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored."
Proverbs 30:14: "are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth,"
Proverbs 30:17: "and the young eagles shall eat"
Proverbs 30:20: "is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith,"
Proverbs 31:27: "She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness."
Ecclesiastes 2:24: "There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul"
Ecclesiastes 2:25: "For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than"
Ecclesiastes 3:13: "And also that every man should eat that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good"
Ecclesiastes 4:5: "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."
Ecclesiastes 5:11: "When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving"
Ecclesiastes 5:12: "of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much:"
Ecclesiastes 5:17: "All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath"
Ecclesiastes 5:18: "have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, the good of all"
Ecclesiastes 5:19: "riches and wealth, to eat thereof, and to take his portion,"
Ecclesiastes 6:2: "that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but"
Ecclesiastes 6:2: "giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this"
Ecclesiastes 8:15: "the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that"
Ecclesiastes 9:7: "Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart;"
Ecclesiastes 10:16: "when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!"
Ecclesiastes 10:17: "when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, and not"
Song of Solomon 4:16: "come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits."
Song of Solomon 5:1: "my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk"
Song of Solomon 5:1: "my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved."
Isaiah 1:7: "with fire: your land, strangers devour and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers."
Isaiah 1:19: "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:"
Isaiah 1:20: "But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD"
Isaiah 3:10: "that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings."
Isaiah 4:1: "of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only"
Isaiah 5:17: "and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat."
Isaiah 5:24: "Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root"
Isaiah 7:15: "Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good."
Isaiah 7:22: "for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter"
Isaiah 7:22: "for butter shall every one eat that is left in the land."
Isaiah 9:12: "before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel"
Isaiah 9:18: "wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle"
Isaiah 9:20: "on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not"
Isaiah 9:20: "the left hand, and they shall not they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:"
Isaiah 10:17: "and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour and his briers in one day;"
Isaiah 11:7: "shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat like the ox."
