מַאֲכָלmaʼăkâl
food (Judges 14:14; Habakkuk 1:16; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 40:7; Ezekiel 4:10)
Pronunciation: mah-ak-awl' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3978
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 30 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:9 The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 3:6 The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.
- Genesis 6:21 And be sure to take on board enough food for your family and for all the animals.”
- Genesis 40:17 The top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them from the basket on my head.”
- Leviticus 19:23 “When you enter the land and plant fruit trees, leave the fruit unharvested for the first three years and consider it forbidden. Do not eat it.
- Deuteronomy 20:20 You may only cut down trees that you know are not valuable for food. Use them to make the equipment you need to attack the enemy town until it falls.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).