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)


  • Psalms 102:9 - ashes like bread For I have eaten my drink with weeping and mingled

  • Psalms 105:35 - And did eat up all the herbs in their land And did eat up the fruit of their ground

  • Psalms 106:20 - Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass

  • Psalms 106:28 - They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor and ate the sacrifices of the dead

  • Psalms 127:2 - It is vain early for you to rise up late to sit up to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep

  • Psalms 128:2 - the labour of thine hands For thou shalt eat happy shalt thou be and it shall be well

  • Ruth 2:14 - said And Boaz unto her At mealtime come thou hither and eat of the bread and dip thy morsel in the vinegar And she sat beside the reapers and he reached her parched and eat and was sufficed and left

  • Ruth 3:3 - Wash thyself therefore and anoint thee and put thy raiment upon thee and get thee down to the floor but make not thyself known unto the man until he shall have done eating and drinking

  • Ruth 3:7 - had eaten And when Boaz and drunk was merry and his heart and she came and laid her down at the end of the heap of corn and she came softly and uncovered his feet and laid her down

  • Song of Solomon 4:16 - Awake O north wind and come thou south blow into his garden thereof may flow out that the spices and come Let my beloved into his garden and eat fruits his pleasant

  • Song of Solomon 5:1 - I am come into my garden my sister my spouse I have gathered my myrrh with my spice I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey I have drunk my wine with my milk I have eaten O friends I have drunk yea drink abundantly O beloved

  • Zechariah 7:6 - And when ye did eat and when ye did drink And when ye did eat and when ye did drink

  • Zechariah 9:4 - Behold the Lord will cast her out and he will smite in the sea her power with fire and she shall be devoured

  • Zechariah 9:15 - The LORD of hosts shall defend them and they shall devour and subdue stones with sling and they shall drink and make a noise as through wine and they shall be filled like bowls and as the corners of the altar

  • Zechariah 11:1 - Open O Lebanon thy doors may devour that the fire thy cedars

  • Zechariah 11:9 - Then said I I will not feed let it die let it die and that that is to be cut off and that that is to be cut off and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another

  • Zechariah 11:16 - For lo I will raise up a shepherd in the land those that be cut off which shall not visit the young one neither shall seek that that is broken nor heal that that standeth nor feed the flesh of the fat still but he shall eat their claws and tear

  • Zechariah 12:6 - In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood and like a torch of fire in a sheaf and they shall devour on the right hand and on the left all the people round about shall be inhabited again in her own place even in Jerusalem again in her own place even in Jerusalem

  • Zephaniah 1:18 - Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day wrath of the LORD'S by the fire of his jealousy shall be devoured but the whole land riddance even a speedy for he shall make of all them that dwell but the whole land

  • Zephaniah 3:8 - Therefore wait ye upon me saith the LORD until the day that I rise up to the prey for my determination is to gather the nations that I may assemble the kingdoms to pour upon them mine indignation even all my fierce anger with the fire of my jealousy shall be devoured for all the earth