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)


  • Job 15:34 - For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery

  • Job 18:13 - It shall devour his strength of his skin It shall devour his strength even the firstborn of death

  • Job 20:26 - All darkness shall be hid in his secret places shall consume a fire not blown him it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle

  • Job 21:25 - And another dieth of his soul in the bitterness and never eateth with pleasure

  • Job 22:20 - Whereas is not cut down our substance but the remnant consumeth of them the fire

  • Job 31:8 - Then let me sow and let another eat yea let my offspring be rooted out

  • Job 31:12 - For it is a fire to destruction that consumeth all mine increase and would root out

  • Job 31:17 - Or have eaten my morsel Or have eaten myself alone and the fatherless

  • Job 31:39 - the fruits If I have eaten thereof without money their life or have caused the owners thereof to lose

  • Job 34:3 - For the ear words trieth as the mouth tasteth meat

  • Job 40:15 - Behold now behemoth which I made grass as an ox with thee he eateth

  • Job 42:11 - 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 over all the evil Then came that the LORD also gave and every one piece of money him a and every one an earring of gold him a

  • Joel 1:4 - hath left That which the palmerworm eaten and that which the locust hath left and that which the locust eaten and that which the cankerworm hath left and that which the cankerworm eaten hath the caterpiller

  • Joel 1:19 - O LORD to thee will I cry for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field

  • Joel 1:20 - The beasts of the field cry are dried up also unto thee for the rivers of waters and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness

  • Joel 2:3 - before devoureth A fire them and behind burneth them a flame is as the garden of Eden the land before them and behind wilderness them a desolate yea and nothing shall escape

  • Joel 2:5 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap Like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble people as a strong array set in battle

  • Joel 2:25 - And I will restore to you the years hath eaten that the locust the cankerworm and the caterpiller and the palmerworm army my great which I sent

  • Joel 2:26 - And ye shall eat And ye shall eat and be satisfied and praise the name of the LORD your God that hath dealt wondrously be ashamed with you and my people shall never

  • Joshua 5:11 - And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover unleavened cakes and parched corn in the selfsame day