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:
Hosea 7:7: "They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings"
Hosea 7:9: "Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs"
Hosea 8:13: "flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not;"
Hosea 8:14: "but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces"
Hosea 9:3: "but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat things in Assyria."
Hosea 9:4: "shall be unto them as the bread all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul"
Hosea 10:13: "wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because"
Hosea 11:4: "their jaws, and I laid meat unto"
Hosea 11:6: "on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels."
Hosea 13:8: "the caul of their heart, and there will I devour the wild beast shall tear"
Joel 1:4: "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten;"
Joel 1:4: "and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; hath left hath the caterpillar eaten."
Joel 1:4: "hath left hath the caterpillar eaten."
Joel 1:19: "thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, hath burned"
Joel 1:20: "of waters and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness."
Joel 2:3: "A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden"
Joel 2:5: "like the noise of a flame that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array."
Joel 2:25: "the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, my great"
Joel 2:26: " And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God,"
Joel 2:26: "And ye shall eat in plenty, And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God,"
Amos 1:4: "a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad."
Amos 1:7: "a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces"
Amos 1:10: "a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces"
Amos 1:12: "But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah."
Amos 1:14: "a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day"
Amos 2:2: "But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die"
Amos 2:5: "But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
Amos 4:9: "and your olive trees increased, devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith"
Amos 5:6: "like fire in the house and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel."
Amos 6:4: "and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat out of the flock, and the calves"
Amos 7:2: "And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said,"
Amos 7:4: "called by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up"
Amos 7:4: "the great deep, and did eat up a part."
Amos 7:12: "of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:"
Amos 9:14: "the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit"
Obadiah 1:18: "for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house"
Micah 3:3: "Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off"
Micah 6:14: "Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not"
Micah 7:1: "of the vintage: there is no to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit."
Nahum 1:10: "as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble dry."
Nahum 2:13: "her chariots in the smoke, shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth,"
Nahum 3:12: "they shall even fall the mouth of the eater."
Nahum 3:13: "shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: shall devour thy bars."
Nahum 3:15: "There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many"
Nahum 3:15: "devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many make thyself many"
Habakkuk 1:8: "shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat."
Habakkuk 3:14: "to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly."
Zephaniah 1:18: "of the LORD's but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for"
Zephaniah 3:8: "for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy."
Haggai 1:6: "much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink;"
