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:
Genesis 37:33: "coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph"
Genesis 39:6: "save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly"
Genesis 40:17: "there was of all manner of bakedmeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of"
Genesis 40:19: "thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off"
Genesis 41:4: "favored and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well"
Genesis 41:20: "And the lean and the ill favored kine did eat up the first seven fat"
Genesis 43:2: "And it came to pass, when they had eaten up they had eaten up the corn which they had brought"
Genesis 43:16: "and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon."
Genesis 43:25: "for that they should eat bread there."
Genesis 43:32: "for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because"
Genesis 43:32: "might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for"
Genesis 45:18: "of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land."
Genesis 47:22: "had a portion Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which"
Genesis 47:24: "and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."
Genesis 49:27: "shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide"
Exodus 2:20: "call him, that he may eat bread."
Exodus 3:2: "burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed."
Exodus 10:5: "to see and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth"
Exodus 10:5: "which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth"
Exodus 10:12: "upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land,"
Exodus 10:15: "earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land,"
Exodus 12:7: "of the houses, wherein they shall eat"
Exodus 12:8: " And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread;"
Exodus 12:8: "and unleavened bread; bitter herbs they shall eat"
Exodus 12:9: " Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but"
Exodus 12:11: "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand;"
Exodus 12:11: "on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's passover."
Exodus 12:15: "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away"
Exodus 12:15: "out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day"
Exodus 12:16: "that which every man must eat, that only may be done"
Exodus 12:18: "month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until"
Exodus 12:19: "in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off"
Exodus 12:20: " Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread."
Exodus 12:20: "nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread."
Exodus 12:43: "of the passover: stranger eat"
Exodus 12:44: "for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat"
Exodus 12:45: "A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat"
Exodus 12:46: "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad"
Exodus 12:48: "as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat"
Exodus 13:3: "the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten."
Exodus 13:6: "Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD."
Exodus 13:7: "Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen"
Exodus 15:7: "them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble."
Exodus 16:3: "when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for"
Exodus 16:8: "shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning to the full; for that the LORD"
Exodus 16:12: "them, saying, even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread;"
Exodus 16:25: "And Moses said, Eat that today; for today is a sabbath unto the LORD:"
Exodus 16:32: "the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land"
Exodus 16:35: "And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until"
Exodus 16:35: "to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came"
