מַאֲכֹלֶתmaʼăkôleth

fuel (Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 9:18)

Pronunciation: mah-ak-o'-leth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3980

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Isaiah 9:5 The boots of the warrior and the uniforms bloodstained by war will all be burned. They will be fuel for the fire.
  • Isaiah 9:19 The land will be blackened by the fury of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. The people will be fuel for the fire, and no one will spare even his own brother.

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).