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:
Ezekiel 5:10: "the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; judgments in thee, and"
Ezekiel 7:15: "and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour"
Ezekiel 12:18: "Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling"
Ezekiel 12:19: "and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water"
Ezekiel 15:4: "into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both of it, and the midst"
Ezekiel 15:5: "for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?"
Ezekiel 15:7: "against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know I am the LORD,"
Ezekiel 16:13: "was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; thou didst eat and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful,"
Ezekiel 16:19: "thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set them for a sweet savor:"
Ezekiel 16:20: "whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. thy whoredoms a small matter,"
Ezekiel 18:2: "saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?"
Ezekiel 18:6: "And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to"
Ezekiel 18:11: "of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's"
Ezekiel 18:15: "That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to"
Ezekiel 19:3: "a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men."
Ezekiel 19:6: "and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men."
Ezekiel 19:12: "were broken and withered; the fire consumed"
Ezekiel 19:14: "is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no"
Ezekiel 20:47: "Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every"
Ezekiel 22:9: "to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon in the midst of thee they commit"
Ezekiel 22:25: "lion ravening the prey; they have devoured they have taken the treasure and precious things;"
Ezekiel 23:25: "thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire."
Ezekiel 24:17: "and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men."
Ezekiel 24:22: "cover your lips, nor eat of men."
Ezekiel 25:4: "their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk."
Ezekiel 28:18: "therefore will I bring forth a fire of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes"
Ezekiel 33:25: "saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat the blood, and lift up your eyes"
Ezekiel 33:27: "the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves"
Ezekiel 34:3: " Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed:"
Ezekiel 34:28: "neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid."
Ezekiel 36:13: "Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up and hast bereaved thy nations;"
Ezekiel 36:14: "Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations"
Ezekiel 39:17: "sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood."
Ezekiel 39:18: " Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams,"
Ezekiel 39:19: " And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice"
Ezekiel 42:13: "where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things:"
Ezekiel 43:8: "by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger."
Ezekiel 44:3: "the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before he shall enter"
Ezekiel 44:29: "They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel"
Ezekiel 44:31: "The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl"
Ezekiel 45:21: "a feast of seven unleavened bread shall be eaten."
Daniel 1:12: "days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink."
Daniel 1:13: "before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat:"
Daniel 1:15: "in flesh all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat."
Daniel 10:3: " I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine"
Daniel 11:26: " Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain."
Hosea 2:12: "them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat"
Hosea 4:8: " They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity."
Hosea 4:10: " For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off"
Hosea 5:7: "children: now shall a month devour them with their portions."
