Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H398: אָכַל (ʼâkal) Definition

Strong's number
H398
Lemma
אָכַל
Transliteration
ʼâkal
Pronunciation
aw-kal'
Strong's definition
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. a primitive root;

700 instances of the word אָכַל ʼâkal (H398)


  • Ecclesiastes 2:24 - There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and that he should make his soul There is nothing better in his labour This also I saw that it was from the hand of God

  • Ecclesiastes 2:25 - For who can eat or who else can hasten hereunto more

  • Ecclesiastes 3:13 - And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labour it is the gift of God

  • Ecclesiastes 4:5 - The fool foldeth his hands and eateth his own flesh

  • Ecclesiastes 5:11 - increase When goods they are increased that eat them and what good is there to the owners thereof saving of them with their eyes

  • Ecclesiastes 5:12 - is sweet The sleep of a labouring man little or much whether he eat but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep

  • Ecclesiastes 5:17 - All his days in darkness also he eateth sorrow and he hath much with his sickness and wrath

  • Ecclesiastes 5:18 - Behold that which I have seen it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink Behold that which I have seen it is good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life giveth which God him for it is his portion

  • Ecclesiastes 5:19 - Every man hath given also to whom God riches and wealth and hath given him power to eat thereof and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour this is the gift also to whom God

  • Ecclesiastes 6:2 - A man hath given to whom God riches wealth and honour so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth giveth him not power to whom God eateth A man eateth it this is vanity disease and it is an evil

  • Ecclesiastes 8:15 - Then I commended mirth hath no better thing because a man him under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life giveth which God him under the sun

  • Ecclesiastes 9:7 - Go thy way eat with joy thy bread and drink heart with a merry thy wine now accepteth for God thy works

  • Ecclesiastes 10:16 - Woe to thee O land when thy king is a child and thy princes in the morning eat

  • Ecclesiastes 10:17 - Blessed art thou O land when thy king is the son of nobles and thy princes in due season eat for strength and not for drunkenness

  • Esther 4:16 - gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan and fast ye for me and neither eat nor drink three days night days I also and my maidens and fast likewise and so likewise and so will I go in unto the king which is not according to the law I perish I perish

  • Exodus 2:20 - And he said unto his daughters And where is he why is it that ye have left the man call him that he may eat bread

  • Exodus 3:2 - and he looked And the angel of the LORD unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst and behold the bush and he looked and behold the bush burned of fire and behold the bush was not consumed

  • Exodus 10:5 - And they shall cover the face of the earth that one cannot be able to see of the earth and shall eat the residue of that which is escaped which remaineth unto you from the hail and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field

  • Exodus 10:12 - said And the LORD unto Moses Stretch out thine hand of the land of Egypt for the locusts that they may come up of the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land hath left even all that the hail

  • Exodus 10:15 - For they covered the face of the land was darkened of the land and they did eat every herb of the land and all the fruit in the trees and there remained which the hail and there remained not any green thing in the trees every herb of the field of the land of Egypt