אָכַלʼâkal

אָכַל: eat

Pronunciation: aw-kal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H398

Meanings

Qal

1. eat (Genesis 3:11; Genesis 3:18; Exodus 16:35)

2. eat, devour (Genesis 37:20; Genesis 37:33; Genesis 40:17)

3. devour, consume, figurative of fire (Leviticus 6:3; Nahum 3:13; Isaiah 5:24)

4. devour, slay, of sword (Deuteronomy 32:42; 2 Samuel 22:26; 2 Samuel 11:25)

5. devour, consume, destroy, in general (Genesis 31:40; Ezekiel 7:15; 2 Samuel 18:8)

6. devour, figurative of oppression (Proverbs 30:14; Habakkuk 3:14; Psalms 14:4)

Niph`al

1. be eaten (Exodus 12:46; Exodus 13:3; Exodus 13:7)

2. be devoured, consumed (Zephaniah 1:18; Zephaniah 3:8; Zechariah 9:4)

3. be wasted, destroyed (Numbers 12:12; Jeremiah 30:16)

Pu`al: be consumed (Nehemiah 2:3; Nehemiah 2:13; Nahum 1:10)

Hiph`il

1. cause to eat, feed with (Exodus 16:32; Deuteronomy 8:3; Deuteronomy 8:16)

2. cause to devour (Ezekiel 21:33)

קְרַץ: eat, devour

Pe`al

1. eat, of beast (Daniel 4:30)

2. devour, of beast in vision (Daniel 7:5; Daniel 7:7; Daniel 7:19)

3. eat their pieces, i.e. slander them (Daniel 3:8; Daniel 6:25)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 810 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:16 But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—
  • Genesis 2:17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
  • Genesis 3:1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
  • Genesis 3:2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied.
  • Genesis 3:3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”
  • Genesis 3:5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”
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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).