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:
Zechariah 7:6: "And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink"
Zechariah 7:6: "ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink"
Zechariah 9:4: "her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured"
Zechariah 9:15: "The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with slingstones;"
Zechariah 11:1: "thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars."
Zechariah 11:9: "and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another."
Zechariah 11:16: "nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces."
Zechariah 12:6: "and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about,"
Malachi 3:11: "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither"