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:
Jeremiah 10:25: "not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed"
Jeremiah 10:25: "they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate."
Jeremiah 12:12: "for the sword shall devour from the one end of the land even to"
Jeremiah 15:3: "of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy."
Jeremiah 15:16: "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart:"
Jeremiah 16:8: "of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink."
Jeremiah 17:27: "then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched."
Jeremiah 19:9: " And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one"
Jeremiah 19:9: "of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one of his friend in the siege"
Jeremiah 21:14: "the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about"
Jeremiah 22:15: "thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and do judgment and justice,"
Jeremiah 23:15: "concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall:"
Jeremiah 24:2: "figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad."
Jeremiah 24:3: "evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil."
Jeremiah 24:8: "figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus"
Jeremiah 29:5: "and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit"
Jeremiah 29:17: "figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil."
Jeremiah 29:28: "ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit"
Jeremiah 30:16: "Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go"
Jeremiah 30:16: "Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go"
Jeremiah 31:29: "no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, teeth are set on edge."
Jeremiah 31:30: "shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, shall be set on edge."
Jeremiah 41:1: "the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah."
Jeremiah 46:10: "that he may avenge and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood:"
Jeremiah 46:14: "and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about"
Jeremiah 48:45: "and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner"
Jeremiah 49:27: "a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad."
Jeremiah 50:7: "All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because"
Jeremiah 50:17: "first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king"
Jeremiah 50:32: "and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about"
Jeremiah 51:34: "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel,"
Jeremiah 52:33: "his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before the days"
Lamentations 2:3: "and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about."
Lamentations 2:20: "thou hast done this. Shall the women eat and children of a span long? shall the priest"
Lamentations 4:5: " They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace"
Lamentations 4:11: "and hath kindled in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations"
Ezekiel 2:8: "house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give"
Ezekiel 3:1: "unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest;"
Ezekiel 3:1: "that thou findest; eat this roll, and go"
Ezekiel 3:2: "So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll."
Ezekiel 3:3: "me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels this"
Ezekiel 3:3: "that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey"
Ezekiel 4:9: "hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat"
Ezekiel 4:10: "And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time"
Ezekiel 4:10: "from time time shalt thou eat"
Ezekiel 4:12: " And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man,"
Ezekiel 4:13: "Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled among the Gentiles,"
Ezekiel 4:14: "up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither"
Ezekiel 4:16: "the staff of bread and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink"
Ezekiel 5:10: "Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers;"
