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:
Isaiah 21:5: "the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes,"
Isaiah 22:13: "oxen, and killing sheep, eating and drinking wine: let us eat"
Isaiah 22:13: "and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die."
Isaiah 23:18: "for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing."
Isaiah 24:6: "Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore"
Isaiah 26:11: "yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour"
Isaiah 29:6: "noise, and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire."
Isaiah 29:8: "a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul or as when"
Isaiah 30:24: "likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which"
Isaiah 30:27: "his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:"
Isaiah 30:30: "of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones."
Isaiah 31:8: "and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword,"
Isaiah 33:11: "stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour"
Isaiah 33:14: "the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting"
Isaiah 36:12: "that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink"
Isaiah 36:16: "me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree,"
Isaiah 37:30: "And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same:"
Isaiah 37:30: "ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit"
Isaiah 44:16: "the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; roast, and is satisfied:"
Isaiah 44:19: "the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down"
Isaiah 49:26: " And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine:"
Isaiah 50:9: "shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up."
Isaiah 51:8: "For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness"
Isaiah 51:8: "shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness forever,"
Isaiah 55:1: "money; ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk"
Isaiah 55:2: "not? unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself"
Isaiah 55:10: "that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:"
Isaiah 56:9: "ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest."
Isaiah 58:14: "upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for"
Isaiah 59:5: "and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs and that which is crushed"
Isaiah 61:6: "men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves."
Isaiah 62:9: "But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink"
Isaiah 65:4: "among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth"
Isaiah 65:13: "GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, shall be hungry: behold, my servants"
Isaiah 65:21: "and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit"
Isaiah 65:22: "they shall not plant, and another eat: as the days of a tree are the days"
Isaiah 65:25: "shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: shall be the serpent's"
Isaiah 66:17: "behind one tree in the midst, eating flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse,"
Jeremiah 2:3: "and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; shall come upon"
Jeremiah 2:7: "you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered,"
Jeremiah 2:30: "no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion."
Jeremiah 3:24: "For shame hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth;"
Jeremiah 5:14: "and this people wood, and it shall devour"
Jeremiah 5:17: " And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks"
Jeremiah 5:17: "and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks they shall eat up"
Jeremiah 5:17: "which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks they shall eat up thy vines"
Jeremiah 5:17: "they shall eat up thy flocks they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced"
Jeremiah 7:21: "your burnt offerings your sacrifices, and eat flesh."
Jeremiah 8:16: "at the sound of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all"
Jeremiah 9:15: "the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood,"
