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:
2 Samuel 18:8: "of all the country: devoured more people that day"
2 Samuel 18:8: "that day than the sword devoured."
2 Samuel 19:28: "the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right"
2 Samuel 19:35: "taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear"
2 Samuel 19:42: "us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of"
2 Samuel 19:42: "us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all have we eaten at all of"
2 Samuel 22:9: "out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled"
1 Kings 1:25: "and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save"
1 Kings 1:41: "him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound"
1 Kings 2:7: "of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: so they came"
1 Kings 4:20: "is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry."
1 Kings 13:8: "go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water"
1 Kings 13:9: "me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no nor drink"
1 Kings 13:15: "him, Come home with me, and eat bread."
1 Kings 13:16: "thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water"
1 Kings 13:17: "to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread drink"
1 Kings 13:18: "with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied"
1 Kings 13:19: "So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water."
1 Kings 13:22: "But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say"
1 Kings 13:22: "of the which the LORD did say thee, Eat no bread, and drink no"
1 Kings 13:23: "And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass,"
1 Kings 13:28: "the carcass: the lion had not eaten the carcass, nor torn"
1 Kings 14:11: "of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls"
1 Kings 14:11: "in the field shall the fowls eat: for the LORD hath spoken"
1 Kings 16:4: "of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls"
1 Kings 16:4: "of his in the fields shall the fowls eat."
1 Kings 17:12: "two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."
1 Kings 17:15: "and she, and he, and her house, did eat"
1 Kings 18:19: "of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table."
1 Kings 18:38: "Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones,"
1 Kings 18:41: "said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound"
1 Kings 18:42: "So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top"
1 Kings 19:5: "him, and said unto him, Arise and eat."
1 Kings 19:6: "and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and laid him down again."
1 Kings 19:7: "and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; the journey is too great for"
1 Kings 19:8: "And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty"
1 Kings 19:21: "with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after"
1 Kings 21:4: "and turned away his face, and would eat no bread."
1 Kings 21:5: "him, Why is thy spirit that thou eatest no bread?"
1 Kings 21:7: "govern the kingdom arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry:"
1 Kings 21:23: "the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat by the wall of Jezreel."
1 Kings 21:24: "of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls"
1 Kings 21:24: "in the field shall the fowls eat."
1 Kings 22:27: "this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water"
2 Kings 1:10: "come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from"
2 Kings 1:10: "fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty."
2 Kings 1:12: "come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down"
2 Kings 1:12: "came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty."
2 Kings 1:14: "there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains"
2 Kings 4:8: "was a great and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft"
