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:
Ruth 2:14: "beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left."
Ruth 3:3: "but make not thyself known until he shall have done eating and drinking."
Ruth 3:7: "And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end"
1 Samuel 1:7: "of the LORD, she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat."
1 Samuel 1:8: "why weepest thou? and why eatest and why is thy heart grieved?"
1 Samuel 1:9: "So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli"
1 Samuel 1:18: "So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more"
1 Samuel 2:36: "into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread."
1 Samuel 9:13: "him, before he go up to the high place to eat: the people will not eat"
1 Samuel 9:13: "the people will not eat until he come, because he"
1 Samuel 9:13: "doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up;"
1 Samuel 9:19: "go up me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me today, and tomorrow I will let thee go,"
1 Samuel 9:24: "that which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said,"
1 Samuel 9:24: "I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day."
1 Samuel 14:24: "Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged"
1 Samuel 14:28: "straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed that eateth"
1 Samuel 14:30: "How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today"
1 Samuel 14:30: "How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely had eaten freely today"
1 Samuel 14:32: "and calves, them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood."
1 Samuel 14:33: "the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed:"
1 Samuel 14:34: "his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD"
1 Samuel 14:34: "and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all"
1 Samuel 20:5: "with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field"
1 Samuel 20:24: "was come, the king sat him down to eat"
1 Samuel 20:34: "from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no the second"
1 Samuel 28:20: "and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread"
1 Samuel 28:22: "of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest"
1 Samuel 28:23: "But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled"
1 Samuel 28:25: "Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away night."
1 Samuel 30:11: "him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;"
1 Samuel 30:12: "of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again him: for"
1 Samuel 30:12: "came again him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk"
1 Samuel 30:16: "upon all the earth, eating and drinking, because of all"
2 Samuel 2:26: "Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour forever? thou not that"
2 Samuel 9:7: "all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at"
2 Samuel 9:10: "may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat"
2 Samuel 9:10: "but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread always at my table."
2 Samuel 9:11: "shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons."
2 Samuel 9:13: "in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at table;"
2 Samuel 11:11: "then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife?"
2 Samuel 11:13: "And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out"
2 Samuel 11:25: "displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle"
2 Samuel 12:3: "and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat,"
2 Samuel 12:20: "his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat."
2 Samuel 12:21: "the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread."
2 Samuel 13:5: "in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand."
2 Samuel 13:9: "and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon Have out all"
2 Samuel 13:11: "And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with"
2 Samuel 16:2: "and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink."
2 Samuel 17:29: "and for the people that him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry,"
