Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H398

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Original: אכל

Transliteration: akal ('âkal)

Phonetic: aw-kal'

BDB Definition:

to eat, devour, burn up, feed
1. (Qal)
  1. to eat (human subject)
  2. to eat, devour (of beasts and birds)
  3. to devour, consume (of fire)
  4. to devour, slay (of sword)
  5. to devour, consume, destroy (inanimate subjects i.e., pestilence, drought)
  6. to devour (of oppression)
2. (Niphal)
  1. to be eaten (by men)
  2. to be devoured, consumed (of fire)
  3. to be wasted, destroyed (of flesh)
3. (Pual)
  1. to cause to eat, feed with
  2. to cause to devour
4. (Hiphil)
  1. to feed
  2. to cause to eat
5. (Piel)
  1. consume

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 85

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: A primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively): - X at all, burn up, consume, devour (-er, up), dine, eat (-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in. .. wise (-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (810x)

A Consuming (2x)

After They Had Eaten (1x)

Against Them: For Thou Mayest Eat (1x)

All That Devour (1x)

All That Eat (1x)

Also He Eateth (1x)

Among Them That Did Eat (1x)

Among Them, And Consumed (1x)

Among Them, Which Devoured (1x)

And Ate (1x)

And Burnt Up (1x)

And Consume (2x)

And Consumed (8x)

And Devour (6x)

And Devoured (3x)

And Did Eat (13x)

And Did Eat Up (2x)

And Did Not Eat (1x)

And Eat (27x)

And Eaten (1x)

And Eateth (2x)

And Fed (1x)

And Feed (3x)

And For Food (1x)

And Hast Eaten (2x)

And Have Devoured (2x)

And He Caused Me To Eat (1x)

And He Did Eat (4x)

And He Shall Eat (2x)

And He That Eateth (2x)

And I Did Eat (3x)

And I Will Cause Them To Eat (1x)

And I Will Feed (1x)

And If It Be Eaten (1x)

And In Thee They Eat (1x)

And It Came To Pass, As They Were Eating (1x)

And It Came To Pass, When They Had Eaten Up (1x)

And It Devoured (1x)

And It Hath Devoured (1x)

And It Shall Consume (1x)

And It Shall Devour (6x)

And Let Them Be Of Those That Eat (1x)

And Never Eateth (1x)

And Shall Consume (1x)

And Shall Devour (1x)

And Shall Eat (2x)

And Shall Not Eat (1x)

And Shalt Eat (1x)

And She Did Eat (1x)

And She Shall Be Devoured (1x)

And There Eat (2x)

And There They Did Eat (1x)

And There Will I Devour (1x)

And There Ye Shall Eat (1x)

And They Did Eat (12x)

And They Shall Devour (2x)

And They Shall Eat (7x)

And They Shall Eat Up (1x)

And They Shall Have Eaten (1x)

And Thou Mayest Not Eat (1x)

And Thou Shalt Consume (1x)

And Thou Shalt Eat (6x)

And Thou Shalt Not Eat (1x)

And We Will Eat (1x)

And When He Had Eaten (1x)

And When Ye Did Eat (1x)

And Would Eat (1x)

And Ye Shall Eat (14x)

And, Behold, He Eateth (1x)

And, Behold, They Eat (1x)

Any More; But They Did Eat (1x)

As A Devouring (1x)

As To Devour (1x)

At All (3x)

At Meat (1x)

Be Consumed (1x)

Be Eaten (4x)

Before Him, And He Did Eat (1x)

Behold, I Will Feed (2x)

But Even Hath Eaten (1x)

But Shalt Not Eat (2x)

But They Did Eat (1x)

But Thou Must Eat (1x)

But Ye Shall In No Wise (1x)

Consumed (5x)

Consumeth (2x)

Devour (5x)

Devoured (9x)

Devourest Up (1x)

Devoureth (5x)

Did Eat (8x)

Did Eat Up (2x)

Did Not Ye Eat (1x)

Down To Eat (1x)

Eat (45x)

Eaten (4x)

Eateth (2x)

Eateth Up (1x)

Eating (9x)

100

For He Did Eat (1x)

101

For I Have Eaten (1x)

102

For Meat (1x)

103

For She Shall Eat (1x)

104

For Them: And When They Had Eaten (1x)

105

For They Have Devoured (1x)

106

For They Have Eaten Up (1x)

107

For They Shall Eat (2x)

108

For Thou Shalt Eat (1x)

109

For Who Can Eat (1x)

110

For Whosoever Eateth (3x)

111

For Ye Shall Eat (1x)

112

Freely (1x)

113

From Them, And They Shall Be Devoured (1x)

114

Had Eaten (2x)

115

Had Not Eaten (1x)

116

Hast Thou Eaten (1x)

117

Hath Consumed (1x)

118

Hath Devoured (10x)

119

Hath Eaten (1x)

120

Hath Eaten Me Up (1x)

121

Hath Not Eaten (3x)

122

Have Devoured (1x)

123

Have Eaten (4x)

124

Have I Not Eaten (1x)

125

Have Not Eaten (1x)

126

Have We Eaten (1x)

127

He Did Eat (1x)

128

He Did Neither Eat (1x)

129

He Had Eaten (1x)

130

He Shall Devour (1x)

131

He Shall Eat (4x)

132

He Shall Eat Up (1x)

133

He Shall Not Eat (2x)

134

He Should Have Fed (1x)

135

He That Eateth (1x)

136

He: Eat (1x)

137

Here, And Eat (1x)

138

Him To Eat (1x)

139

Him, He Did Eat (1x)

140

Him, That He May Eat (1x)

141

Him, Then Shall He Eat (1x)

142

I Ate (1x)

143

I Did Neither Eat (1x)

144

I Eat (1x)

145

I Fed (1x)

146

I Had Eaten (1x)

147

I Have Eaten (1x)

148

I Have Not Eaten (1x)

149

I Neither Did Eat (1x)

150

I Will Eat (1x)

151

I Will Not Eat (2x)

152

If I Have Eaten (1x)

153

In Eating (1x)

154

In Him; For He Had Eaten (1x)

155

In It To Eat (1x)

156

In Plenty (1x)

157

In That They Eat (1x)

158

In Thee, And It Shall Devour (1x)

159

In Thee: They Shall Eat (1x)

160

In Them, And Devour (1x)

161

In Thither To Eat (1x)

162

Is Eaten (1x)

163

It Devoured (1x)

164

It Did Eat (1x)

165

It Hath Consumed (1x)

166

It Shall Be Eaten (2x)

167

It Shall Be Eaten Up (1x)

168

It Shall Devour (2x)

169

It Shall Eat (2x)

170

It Shall Eat Thee Up (1x)

171

It Shall Not Be Eaten (3x)

172

Let Us Eat (1x)

173

Like Devouring (1x)

174

May Devour (1x)

175

May Eat (2x)

176

Me, And I Have Eaten (1x)

177

Me, I Will Not Eat (1x)

178

Meat (2x)

179

Moreover Ye Shall Eat (1x)

180

Must Eat (1x)

181

Neither Eat (1x)

182

Nevertheless These Ye Shall Not Eat (1x)

183

Nor Eat (4x)

184

Not Consumed (1x)

185

Not Do Ye Eat (1x)

186

Not Eat (3x)

187

Not Eat Up (1x)

188

Not; When Thou Shalt Have Eaten (1x)

189

Of A Devouring (1x)

190

Of Devouring (1x)

191

Of Eating (2x)

192

Of It Shall Be Eaten (1x)

193

Of The Eater (1x)

194

Of Thee, It Shall Devour (1x)

195

Of Which Ye Shall Not Eat (1x)

196

Of You Shall Eat (1x)

197

Only Thou Shalt Not Eat (1x)

198

Only Ye Shall Not Eat (1x)

199

Or Have Eaten (1x)

200

Shall Be Devoured (3x)

201

Shall Be Eaten (4x)

202

Shall Consume (2x)

203

Shall Devour (14x)

204

Shall Dine (1x)

205

Shall Eat (34x)

206

Shall Eat Them Up (2x)

207

Shall Eat You Up (1x)

208

Shall Every One Eat (1x)

209

Shall He Eat (2x)

210

Shall It Be Eaten (3x)

211

Shall Not Be Eaten (2x)

212

Shall Not Eat (4x)

213

Shall Ye Eat (7x)

214

Shall Ye Not Eat (1x)

215

Shalt Thou Eat (7x)

216

She Eateth (1x)

217

She May Not Eat (2x)

218

She Shall Eat (1x)

219

Should Eat (2x)

220

So They Did Eat (3x)

221

So Thou Shalt Eat (1x)

222

Still: But He Shall Eat (1x)

223

Than To Eat (1x)

224

That Cannot Be Eaten (2x)

225

That Devoureth (1x)

226

That Eat (2x)

227

That Eateth (11x)

228

That Eateth Up (1x)

229

That He May Eat (3x)

230

That He Might Eat (1x)

231

That He Should Eat (1x)

232

That I May Eat (3x)

233

That Is Eaten (1x)

234

That May Be Eaten (2x)

235

That May Not Be Eaten (1x)

236

That Shall Ye Eat (1x)

237

That They May Eat (7x)

238

That They Should Eat (1x)

239

That Thou Eat (1x)

240

That Thou Eatest (2x)

241

That Thou Mayest Eat (1x)

242

That We May Eat (5x)

243

That Ye Eat (1x)

244

That Ye May Eat (2x)

245

That Ye Shall Eat (1x)

246

The Devourer (1x)

247

Thee Shall Be Devoured (1x)

248

Thee, And Thou Eat (1x)

249

Thee, And Thou Shalt Eat (1x)

250

Thee. Then Did I Eat (1x)

251

Thee; And Eat (1x)

252

Them Have Devoured (1x)

253

Them Shall Ye Eat (1x)

254

Them Ye Shall Not Eat (1x)

255

Them, And Gave Them To Eat (1x)

256

Them, And They Did Eat (2x)

257

Them, That They May Eat (1x)

258

Them; And They Shall Devour (1x)

259

Themselves, Yet Did They Eat (1x)

260

Then It Shall Be, That, When Ye Eat (1x)

261

Then Thou Mayest Eat (1x)

262

Therefore All They That Devour (1x)

263

Therefore Shall They Eat (1x)

264

Therefore Thou Shalt Devour (1x)

265

Thereof Are Consumed (1x)

266

Thereof Be Meat (1x)

267

Thereof He Eateth (1x)

268

Thereof Were Consumed (1x)

269

Thereof, And It Shall Devour (2x)

270

Thereof, Shall Ye Not Eat (1x)

271

Thereof: It Shall Be Eaten (1x)

272

Thereof: Whosoever Eateth (1x)

273

These Of Them Ye May Eat (1x)

274

These Shall Ye Eat (1x)

275

These Shall Ye Not Eat (1x)

276

These Ye Shall Eat (1x)

277

They Did Eat (1x)

278

They Eat (3x)

279

They Eat Up (1x)

280

They Had Eaten (1x)

281

They Have Devoured (1x)

282

They Shall Be Devoured (1x)

283

They Shall Eat (8x)

284

They Shall Eat Up (2x)

285

They Shall Not Be Eaten (1x)

286

They That Did Feed (1x)

287

Thither, He Did Eat (1x)

288

Thou Didst Eat (1x)

289

Thou Feedest (1x)

290

Thou Hast Eaten (2x)

291

Thou Mayest Eat (1x)

292

Thou Mayest Freely (1x)

293

Thou Shalt Eat (10x)

294

Thou Shalt Not Eat (5x)

295

Thou? And Why Eatest (1x)

296

To Be Devoured (1x)

297

To Consume (1x)

298

To Devour (4x)

299

To Eat (35x)

300

To Him, And He Did Eat (1x)

301

To Him: For He Had Eaten (1x)

302

To Me, And I Will Eat (1x)

303

To Me, That I May Eat (1x)

304

To Me: And Eat (1x)

305

To The Eater (1x)

306

To Thee, Eat (1x)

307

To Thee; And Thou Shalt Eat (1x)

308

Until He Eat (1x)

309

Unto Him To Eat (1x)

310

Unto Me, And Eat (1x)

311

Unto Me: Neither Shall Ye Eat (1x)

312

Unto Thee, Ye Shall Eat (2x)

313

Unto Them To Be Devoured (1x)

314

Unto Them, Out Of The Eater (1x)

315

Unto Them, That They Should Not Eat (2x)

316

Unto Thyself; And Thou Shalt Eat (1x)

317

Unto You: It Shall Not Be Eaten (1x)

318

Unto You: They Shall Not Be Eaten (1x)

319

Unto You: Ye Shall Eat (1x)

320

Unto You: Ye Shall Not Eat (1x)

321

Unto You; Ye Shall Not Eat (1x)

322

Up Even Till Now Have I Not Eaten (1x)

323

Upon Me To Eat Up (1x)

324

Upon Them To Eat (1x)

325

Us, And Hath Quite (1x)

326

We May Eat (1x)

327

We Will Eat (1x)

328

Were Higher (1x)

329

What Shall We Eat (1x)

330

When They Eat (1x)

331

When Thou Hast Eaten (1x)

332

When We Did Eat (1x)

333

Wherefore Have Ye Not Eaten (1x)

334

Wherein They Shall Eat (1x)

335

Wherewith I Have Fed (1x)

336

Whether He Eat (1x)

337

Which Cannot Be Eaten (1x)

338

Which Could Not Be Eaten (1x)

339

Which Did Eat (4x)

340

Which Eat (2x)

341

Which He Did Eat (1x)

342

Which May Be Eaten (1x)

343

Which Shall Devour (4x)

344

Which Thou Shalt Eat (1x)

345

Which We Did Eat (1x)

346

Which Ye Shall Eat (2x)

347

Who Also Eat (1x)

348

Who Eat Up (2x)

349

Who Fed (1x)

350

Whom He Shall Eat (1x)

351

Will Consume (1x)

352

Will I Eat (1x)

353

Will Not Eat (1x)

354

With Her; And He Did Eat (1x)

355

With Him, And Did Eat (1x)

356

With Him, To Eat (1x)

357

With Me, And Eat (1x)

358

With The Devouring (1x)

359

With Thee, Neither Will I Eat (1x)

360

With Thee: Neither Will I Eat (1x)

361

With Thee; He Eateth (1x)

362

With Them To Eat (1x)

363

Ye Eat (4x)

364

Ye For Me, And Neither Eat (1x)

365

Ye Have Eaten (1x)

366

Ye Have Not Eaten (1x)

367

Ye May Eat (1x)

368

Ye May Not Eat (1x)

369

Ye Must Eat (1x)

370

Ye Shall Be Devoured (1x)

371

Ye Shall Eat (10x)

372

Ye Shall Not Eat (5x)

373

Ye Should Indeed (1x)

374

Yea, They That Feed (1x)

375

Yet These May Ye Eat (1x)

376

You Eat (1x)

377

You, That Eateth (1x)

All Occurrences

2 Samuel 13:9

And she took a pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him.

2 Samuel 13:11

And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.

2 Samuel 16:2

And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

2 Samuel 17:29

And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

2 Samuel 18:8

For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.(d)

2 Samuel 19:28

For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?(g)

2 Samuel 19:35

I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

2 Samuel 19:42

And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s cost? or hath he given us any gift?

2 Samuel 22:9

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.(d)

1 Kings 1:25

For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.(m)

1 Kings 1:41

And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?

1 Kings 2:7

But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

1 Kings 13:8

And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:

1 Kings 13:9

For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord , saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

1 Kings 13:15

Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

1 Kings 13:16

And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

1 Kings 13:17

For it was said to me by the word of the Lord , Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.(c)

1 Kings 13:18

He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord , saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

1 Kings 13:19

So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

1 Kings 13:22

But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

1 Kings 13:23

And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

1 Kings 13:28

And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.(e)

1 Kings 14:11

Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the Lord hath spoken it.

1 Kings 16:4

Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.

1 Kings 17:12

And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

1 Kings 17:15

And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.(e)

1 Kings 18:19

Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table.

1 Kings 18:38

Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

1 Kings 18:41

And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.(r)

1 Kings 18:42

So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,

1 Kings 19:5

And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

1 Kings 19:6

And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.(b)

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

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Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H398

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H398