אָכַל

a.khal · to eat

Hebrew · Strong's H398 · Verb · Sounds like: aw-kal' · 810 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively); [idiom] at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, [idiom] freely, [idiom] in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, [idiom] quite.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
אָכַל 806 vb. eat
Qal
1. eat, human subject
2. of beasts, birds, etc., eat, devour
3. fig. of fire, devour, consume
4. of sword, devour, slay
5. in genl., devour, consume, destroy
6. fig. of oppression, devour the poor
Niph.
1. be eaten by man
2. be devoured by fire, consumed
3. be wasted, destroyed, of flesh
Pu. be consumed
Hiph.
1. cause to eat, feed with
2. cause to devoure, obj. sword

Every occurrence

  1. Job 40:15 יֹאכֵֽל׃ yo.Khel · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as thee; He eateth grass as an ox.

  2. Job 42:11 וַיֹּאכְל֨וּ vai.yo.khe.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold.

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