אָכַל
to eat
also: devour, burn up, feed fuller range ↓
H398
Strong's Hebrew
ʼâkal
Transliteration
/aw-kal'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
815
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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BDB Definition
to eat, devour, burn up, feed
- (Qal)
- to eat (human subject)
- to eat, devour (of beasts and birds)
- to devour, consume (of fire)
- to devour, slay (of sword)
- to devour, consume, destroy (inanimate subjects i.e., pestilence, drought)
- to devour (of oppression)
- (Niphal)
- to be eaten (by men)
- to be devoured, consumed (of fire)
- to be wasted, destroyed (of flesh)
- (Pual)
- to cause to eat, feed with
- to cause to devour
- (Hiphil)
- to feed
- to cause to eat
- (Piel)
- consume
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘eat’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘be eaten by man Ex 12’
- Qal Passive
- An archaic passive of the Qal, preserved in a few forms.
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘cause to eat’
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 74 distinct
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 74 times (9%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 72 times (9%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 55 times (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 53 times (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 41 times (5%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 39 times (5%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 31 times (4%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 28 times (3%)
+66 more forms (422 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 815 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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Genesis 54 verses
- Genesis 2:16 אָכֹ֥ל תֹּאכֵֽל Qal inf.abs Qal impf 2ms Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
- Genesis 2:17 תֹאכַ֖ל אֲכָלְ/ךָ֥ Qal impf 2ms Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
- Genesis 3:1 תֹֽאכְל֔וּ Qal impf 2mp Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:2 נֹאכֵֽל Qal impf 1cp The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
- Genesis 3:3 תֹֽאכְלוּ֙ Qal impf 2mp but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
- Genesis 3:5 אֲכָלְ/כֶ֣ם Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2mp for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- Genesis 3:6 וַ/תֹּאכַ֑ל וַ/יֹּאכַֽל conj + Qal wimpf 3fs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Genesis 3:11 אֲכָל אָכָֽלְתָּ Qal inf.cs Qal pf 2ms God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 3:12 וָ/אֹכֵֽל conj + Qal wimpf 1cs The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:13 וָ/אֹכֵֽל conj + Qal wimpf 1cs Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:14 תֹּאכַ֖ל Qal impf 2ms Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:17 וַ/תֹּ֨אכַל֙ תֹאכַ֖ל תֹּֽאכֲלֶ֔/נָּה conj + Qal wimpf 2ms Qal impf 2ms Qal impf 2ms + sfx pers 3fs To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:18 וְ/אָכַלְתָּ֖ conj + Qal wpf 2ms Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
- Genesis 3:19 תֹּ֣אכַל Qal impf 2ms By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
- Genesis 3:22 וְ/אָכַ֖ל conj + Qal wpf 3ms Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 6:21 יֵֽאָכֵ֔ל Niphal impf 3ms Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them."
- Genesis 9:4 תֹאכֵֽלוּ Qal impf 2mp But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat.
- Genesis 14:24 אָֽכְל֣וּ Qal pf 3cp Except only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their portion."
- Genesis 18:8 וַ/יֹּאכֵֽלוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
- Genesis 19:3 וַ/יֹּאכֵֽלוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
- Genesis 24:33 לֶ/אֱכֹ֔ל אֹכַ֔ל prep + Qal inf.cs Qal impf 1cs Food was set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on."
- Genesis 24:54 וַ/יֹּאכְל֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master."
- Genesis 25:34 וַ/יֹּ֣אכַל conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
- Genesis 26:30 וַ/יֹּאכְל֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp He made them a feast, and they ate and drink.
- Genesis 27:4 וְ/אֹכֵ֑לָה conj + Qal coh 1cs Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."
- Genesis 27:7 וְ/אֹכֵ֑לָה conj + Qal coh 1cs 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'
- Genesis 27:10 וְ/אָכָ֑ל conj + Qal wpf 3ms You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
- Genesis 27:19 וְ/אָכְלָ/ה֙ conj + Qal impv 2ms + sfx h Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."
- Genesis 27:25 וְ/אֹֽכְלָה֙ וַ/יֹּאכַ֔ל conj + Qal coh 1cs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
- Genesis 27:31 וְ/יֹאכַל֙ conj + Qal impf 3ms He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."
- Genesis 27:33 וָ/אֹכַ֥ל conj + Qal wimpf 1cs Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
- Genesis 28:20 לֶ/אֱכֹ֖ל prep + Qal inf.cs Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
- Genesis 31:15 וַ/יֹּ֥אכַל אָכ֖וֹל conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal inf.abs Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
- Genesis 31:38 אָכָֽלְתִּי Qal pf 1cs These twenty years have I been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.
- Genesis 31:40 אֲכָלַ֥/נִי Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
- Genesis 31:46 וַ/יֹּ֥אכְלוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
- Genesis 31:54 לֶ/אֱכָל וַ/יֹּ֣אכְלוּ prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
- Genesis 32:32 יֹאכְל֨וּ Qal impf 3mp Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.
- Genesis 37:20 אֲכָלָ֑תְ/הוּ Qal pf 3fs + sfx pers 3ms Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
- Genesis 37:25 לֶֽ/אֱכָל prep + Qal inf.cs They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
- Genesis 37:33 אֲכָלָ֑תְ/הוּ Qal pf 3fs + sfx pers 3ms He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."
- Genesis 39:6 אוֹכֵ֑ל Qal ptcp.act ms He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.
- Genesis 40:17 אֹכֵ֥ל Qal ptcp.act ms In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."
- Genesis 40:19 וְ/אָכַ֥ל conj + Qal wpf 3ms Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."
- Genesis 41:4 וַ/תֹּאכַ֣לְנָה conj + Qal wimpf 3fp The ill-favored and lean-fleshed cattle ate up the seven well-favored and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.
- Genesis 41:20 וַ/תֹּאכַ֨לְנָה֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3fp The lean and ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
- Genesis 43:2 לֶ/אֱכֹ֣ל prep + Qal inf.cs It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
- Genesis 43:16 יֹאכְל֥וּ Qal impf 3mp When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and make ready; for the men will dine with me at noon."
- Genesis 43:25 יֹ֥אכְלוּ Qal impf 3mp They made ready the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
- Genesis 43:32 הָ/אֹכְלִ֤ים לֶ/אֱכֹ֤ל ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp prep + Qal inf.cs They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
- Genesis 45:18 וְ/אִכְל֖וּ conj + Qal impv 2mp Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'
- Genesis 47:22 וְ/אָֽכְל֤וּ conj + Qal pf 3cp Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land.
- Genesis 47:24 וְ/לֶ/אֱכֹ֥ל conj + prep + Qal inf.cs It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."
- Genesis 49:27 יֹ֣אכַל Qal impf 3ms "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."
Exodus 44 verses
- Exodus 2:20 וְ/יֹ֥אכַל conj + Qal impf 3ms He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
- Exodus 3:2 אֻכָּֽל Qal Passive ptcp.pass ms The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
- Exodus 10:5 וְ/אָכַ֣ל וְ/אָכַל֙ conj + Qal wpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 3ms and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.
- Exodus 10:12 וְ/יֹאכַל֙ conj + Qal impf 3ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."
- Exodus 10:15 וַ/יֹּ֜אכַל conj + Qal wimpf 3ms For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 12:7 יֹאכְל֥וּ Qal impf 3mp They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
- Exodus 12:8 וְ/אָכְל֥וּ יֹאכְלֻֽ/הוּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp Qal impf 3mp + sfx pers 3ms They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
- Exodus 12:9 תֹּאכְל֤וּ Qal juss 2mp Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
- Exodus 12:11 תֹּאכְל֣וּ וַ/אֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם Qal impf 2mp conj + Qal wpf 2mp This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.
- Exodus 12:15 תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ אֹכֵ֣ל Qal impf 2mp Qal ptcp.act ms Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exodus 12:16 יֵאָכֵ֣ל Niphal impf 3ms In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
- Exodus 12:18 תֹּאכְל֖וּ Qal impf 2mp In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
- Exodus 12:19 אֹכֵ֣ל Qal ptcp.act ms Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
- Exodus 12:20 תֹאכֵ֑לוּ תֹּאכְל֖וּ Qal impf 2mp Qal impf 2mp You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"
- Exodus 12:43 יֹ֥אכַל Qal impf 3ms Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat of it,
- Exodus 12:44 יֹ֥אכַל Qal juss 3ms but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
- Exodus 12:45 יֹ֥אכַל Qal impf 3ms A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
- Exodus 12:46 יֵאָכֵ֔ל Niphal impf 3ms In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.
- Exodus 12:48 יֹ֥אכַל Qal impf 3ms When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
- Exodus 13:3 יֵאָכֵ֖ל Niphal impf 3ms Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
- Exodus 13:6 תֹּאכַ֣ל Qal impf 2ms Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
- Exodus 13:7 יֵֽאָכֵ֔ל Niphal impf 3ms Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall there be yeast seen with you, in all your borders.
- Exodus 15:7 יֹאכְלֵ֖/מוֹ Qal impf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you: You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
- Exodus 16:3 בְּ/אָכְלֵ֥/נוּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cp and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
- Exodus 16:8 לֶ/אֱכֹ֗ל prep + Qal inf.cs Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."
- Exodus 16:12 תֹּאכְל֣וּ Qal impf 2mp "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"
- Exodus 16:25 אִכְלֻ֣/הוּ Qal impv 2mp + sfx pers 3ms Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.
- Exodus 16:32 הֶאֱכַ֤לְתִּי Hiphil pf 1cs Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt."
- Exodus 16:35 אָֽכְל֤וּ אָֽכְל֔וּ Qal pf 3cp Qal pf 3cp The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
- Exodus 18:12 לֶ/אֱכָל prep + Qal inf.cs Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
- Exodus 21:28 יֵאָכֵל֙ Niphal impf 3ms "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
- Exodus 22:6 וְ/נֶאֱכַ֣ל conj + Niphal pf 3ms "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
- Exodus 22:31 תֹאכֵ֔לוּ Qal impf 2mp "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.
- Exodus 23:11 וְ/אָֽכְלוּ֙ תֹּאכַ֖ל conj + Qal wpf 3cp Qal impf 3fs but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
- Exodus 23:15 תֹּאכַ֨ל Qal impf 2ms You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
- Exodus 24:11 וַ/יֹּאכְל֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
- Exodus 24:17 אֹכֶ֖לֶת Qal ptcp.act fs The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 29:32 וְ/אָכַ֨ל conj + Qal wpf 3ms Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 29:33 וְ/אָכְל֤וּ יֹאכַ֖ל conj + Qal wpf 3cp Qal impf 3ms They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.
- Exodus 29:34 יֵאָכֵ֖ל Niphal impf 3ms If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
- Exodus 32:6 לֶֽ/אֱכֹ֣ל prep + Qal inf.cs They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
- Exodus 34:15 וְ/אָכַלְתָּ֖ conj + Qal pf 2ms Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
- Exodus 34:18 תֹּאכַ֤ל Qal impf 2ms "You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
- Exodus 34:28 אָכַ֔ל Qal pf 3ms He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Leviticus 81 verses
- Leviticus 3:17 תֹאכֵֽלוּ Qal impf 2mp "'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"
- Leviticus 6:10 תֹּאכַ֥ל Qal impf 3fs The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen breeches upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
- Leviticus 6:16 יֹאכְל֖וּ תֵּֽאָכֵל֙ יֹאכְלֽוּ/הָ Qal impf 3mp Niphal impf 3fs Qal impf 3mp + sfx pers 3fs That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting
- Leviticus 6:18 יֹֽאכֲלֶ֔/נָּה Qal impf 3ms + sfx pers 3fs Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.'"
- Leviticus 6:23 תֵאָכֵֽל Niphal impf 3fs Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."
- Leviticus 6:26 יֹאכֲלֶ֑/נָּה תֵּֽאָכֵ֔ל Qal impf 3ms + sfx pers 3fs Niphal impf 3fs The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 6:29 יֹאכַ֣ל Qal impf 3ms Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy.
- Leviticus 6:30 תֵאָכֵ֑ל Niphal impf 3fs No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire.
- Leviticus 7:6 יֹאכְלֶ֑/נּוּ יֵאָכֵ֔ל Qal impf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms Niphal impf 3ms Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
- Leviticus 7:15 יֵאָכֵ֑ל Niphal impf 3ms The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
- Leviticus 7:16 יֵאָכֵ֑ל יֵאָכֵֽל Niphal impf 3ms Niphal impf 3ms "'But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten:
- Leviticus 7:18 הֵאָכֹ֣ל יֵ֠אָכֵל הָ/אֹכֶ֥לֶת Niphal inf.abs Niphal impf 3ms ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act fs If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
- Leviticus 7:19 יֵֽאָכֵ֔ל יֹאכַ֥ל Niphal impf 3ms Qal impf 3ms "'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;
- Leviticus 7:20 תֹּאכַ֣ל Qal impf 3fs but the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
- Leviticus 7:21 וְ/אָכַ֛ל conj + Qal wpf 3ms When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"
- Leviticus 7:23 תֹאכֵֽלוּ Qal impf 2mp "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.
- Leviticus 7:24 וְ/אָכֹ֖ל תֹאכְלֻֽ/הוּ conj + Qal inf.abs Qal impf 2mp + sfx pers 3ms The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.
- Leviticus 7:25 אֹכֵ֣ל הָ/אֹכֶ֖לֶת Qal ptcp.act ms ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act fs For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.
- Leviticus 7:26 תֹאכְל֔וּ Qal impf 2mp You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
- Leviticus 7:27 תֹּאכַ֣ל Qal impf 3fs Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"
- Leviticus 8:31 תֹּאכְל֣וּ יֹאכְלֻֽ/הוּ Qal impf 2mp Qal impf 3mp + sfx pers 3ms Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.'
- Leviticus 9:24 וַ/תֹּ֨אכַל֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3fs There came forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
- Leviticus 10:2 וַ/תֹּ֣אכַל conj + Qal wimpf 3fs And fire came forth from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 10:12 וְ/אִכְל֥וּ/הָ conj + Qal impv 2mp + sfx pers 3fs Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;
- Leviticus 10:13 וַ/אֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons' portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: for so I am commanded.
- Leviticus 10:14 תֹּֽאכְלוּ֙ Qal impf 2mp The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons' portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 10:17 אֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם Qal pf 2mp "Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?
- Leviticus 10:18 אָכ֨וֹל תֹּאכְל֥וּ Qal inf.abs Qal impf 2mp Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary: you certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded."
- Leviticus 10:19 וְ/אָכַ֤לְתִּי conj + Qal wpf 1cs Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happend to me: and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of Yahweh?"
- Leviticus 11:2 תֹּאכְל֔וּ Qal impf 2mp "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
- Leviticus 11:3 תֹּאכֵֽלוּ Qal impf 2mp Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
- Leviticus 11:4 תֹֽאכְל֔וּ Qal impf 2mp "'Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:8 תֹאכֵ֔לוּ Qal impf 2mp Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:9 תֹּֽאכְל֔וּ תֹּאכֵֽלוּ Qal impf 2mp Qal impf 2mp These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.
- Leviticus 11:11 תֹאכֵ֔לוּ Qal impf 2mp and you detest them. You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.
- Leviticus 11:13 יֵאָכְל֖וּ Niphal impf 3mp "'These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,
- Leviticus 11:21 תֹּֽאכְל֔וּ Qal impf 2mp Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.
- Leviticus 11:22 תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ Qal impf 2mp Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.
- Leviticus 11:34 יֵאָכֵ֗ל Niphal impf 3ms All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 11:40 וְ/הָֽ/אֹכֵל֙ conj + ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 11:41 יֵאָכֵֽל Niphal impf 3ms "'Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
- Leviticus 11:42 תֹאכְל֖וּ/ם Qal impf 2mp + sfx pers 3mp Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
- Leviticus 11:47 הַֽ/נֶּאֱכֶ֔לֶת תֵאָכֵֽל ptcl def.art + Niphal ptcp.pass fs Niphal impf 3fs to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.'"
- Leviticus 14:47 וְ/הָ/אֹכֵ֣ל conj + ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
- Leviticus 17:10 יֹאכַ֖ל הָ/אֹכֶ֣לֶת Qal impf 3ms ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act fs "'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
- Leviticus 17:12 תֹ֣אכַל יֹ֥אכַל Qal impf 3fs Qal impf 3ms Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood."
- Leviticus 17:13 יֵאָכֵ֑ל Niphal impf 3ms "'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
- Leviticus 17:14 תֹאכֵ֑לוּ אֹכְלָ֖י/ו Qal impf 2mp Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 3ms For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off."
- Leviticus 17:15 תֹּאכַ֤ל Qal impf 3fs "'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.
- Leviticus 19:6 יֵאָכֵ֖ל Niphal impf 3ms It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day: and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned with fire.
- Leviticus 19:7 הֵאָכֹ֥ל יֵאָכֵ֖ל Niphal inf.abs Niphal impf 3ms If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted;
- Leviticus 19:8 וְ/אֹֽכְלָי/ו֙ conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 3ms but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.
- Leviticus 19:23 יֵאָכֵֽל Niphal impf 3ms "'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.
- Leviticus 19:25 תֹּֽאכְלוּ֙ Qal impf 2mp In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 19:26 תֹאכְל֖וּ Qal impf 2mp "'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
- Leviticus 21:22 יֹאכֵֽל Qal impf 3ms He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
- Leviticus 22:4 יֹאכַ֔ל Qal impf 3ms "'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;
- Leviticus 22:6 יֹאכַל֙ Qal impf 3ms the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.
- Leviticus 22:7 יֹאכַ֣ל Qal impf 3ms When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.
- Leviticus 22:8 יֹאכַ֖ל Qal impf 3ms That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 22:10 יֹ֣אכַל יֹ֥אכַל Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 3ms "'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
- Leviticus 22:11 יֹ֣אכַל יֹאכְל֥וּ Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 3mp But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.
- Leviticus 22:12 תֹאכֵֽל Qal impf 3fs If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
- Leviticus 22:13 תֹּאכֵ֑ל יֹ֥אכַל Qal impf 3fs Qal impf 3ms But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
- Leviticus 22:14 יֹאכַ֥ל Qal impf 3ms "'If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.
- Leviticus 22:16 בְּ/אָכְלָ֖/ם prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
- Leviticus 22:30 יֵאָכֵ֔ל Niphal impf 3ms It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 23:6 תֹּאכֵֽלוּ Qal impf 2mp On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
- Leviticus 23:14 תֹֽאכְל֗וּ Qal impf 2mp You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
- Leviticus 24:9 וַ/אֲכָלֻ֖/הוּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp + sfx pers 3ms It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute."
- Leviticus 25:7 לֶ/אֱכֹֽל prep + Qal inf.cs For your cattle also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all the increase of it be for food.
- Leviticus 25:12 תֹּאכְל֖וּ Qal impf 2mp For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.
- Leviticus 25:19 וַ/אֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
- Leviticus 25:20 נֹּאכַ֤֖ל Qal impf 1cp If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"
- Leviticus 25:22 וַ/אֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם תֹּאכְל֖וּ conj + Qal wpf 2mp Qal impf 2mp You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
- Leviticus 26:5 וַ/אֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
- Leviticus 26:10 וַ/אֲכַלְתֶּ֥ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
- Leviticus 26:16 וַ/אֲכָלֻ֖/הוּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp + sfx pers 3ms I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
- Leviticus 26:26 וַ/אֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Leviticus 26:29 וַ/אֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם תֹּאכֵֽלוּ conj + Qal wpf 2mp Qal impf 2mp You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
- Leviticus 26:38 וְ/אָכְלָ֣ה conj + Qal wpf 3fs You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.
Numbers 24 verses
- Numbers 6:3 יֹאכֵֽל Qal impf 3ms he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
- Numbers 6:4 יֹאכֵֽל Qal impf 3ms All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
- Numbers 9:11 יֹאכְלֻֽ/הוּ Qal impf 3mp + sfx pers 3ms In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- Numbers 11:1 וַ/תֹּ֖אכַל conj + Qal wimpf 3fs The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
- Numbers 11:4 יַאֲכִלֵ֖/נוּ Hiphil impf 3ms + sfx pers 1cp The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
- Numbers 11:5 נֹאכַ֥ל Qal impf 1cp We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
- Numbers 11:13 וְ/נֹאכֵֽלָה conj + Qal coh 1cp Whence should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
- Numbers 11:18 וַ/אֲכַלְתֶּ֣ם יַאֲכִלֵ֨/נוּ֙ וַ/אֲכַלְתֶּֽם conj + Qal wpf 2mp Hiphil impf 3ms + sfx pers 1cp conj + Qal wpf 2mp Say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you shall eat.
- Numbers 11:19 תֹּאכְל֖וּ/ן Qal impf 2mp + sfx n You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,
- Numbers 11:21 וְ/אָכְל֖וּ conj + Qal wpf 1cp Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
- Numbers 12:12 וַ/יֵּאָכֵ֖ל conj + Niphal wimpf 3ms Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
- Numbers 13:32 אֹכֶ֤לֶת Qal ptcp.act fs They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
- Numbers 15:19 בַּ/אֲכָלְ/כֶ֖ם prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2mp then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave-offering to Yahweh.
- Numbers 16:35 וַ/תֹּ֗אכַל conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
- Numbers 18:10 תֹּאכֲלֶ֑/נּוּ יֹאכַ֣ל Qal impf 2ms + sfx pers 3ms Qal impf 3ms As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to you.
- Numbers 18:11 יֹאכַ֥ל Qal impf 3ms This is your: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
- Numbers 18:13 יֹאכֲלֶֽ/נּוּ Qal impf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
- Numbers 18:31 וַ/אֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
- Numbers 21:28 אָֽכְלָה֙ Qal pf 3fs For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon: It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
- Numbers 23:24 יֹ֣אכַל Qal impf 3ms Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, Drink the blood of the slain.
- Numbers 24:8 יֹאכַ֞ל Qal impf 3ms God brings him forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, Shall break their bones in pieces, Smite [them] through with his arrows.
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“to eat” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb אכל (ʼâkal). Different stems carry different senses — BDB groups them under 4 stems, among them Qal and Niphal. With 703 verses in 38 books, it is one of the most common word in the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 2:16. From the same root come אכילה, אכל and אכל. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
Strong's · 1890
[idiom] at all
Modern gloss
to eat
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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About this word
Strong's H398 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 703
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 703 distinct verses.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #57
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 57 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 703 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 81 verses 12%
- Deuteronomy 71 verses 10%
- Genesis 54 verses 8%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 703 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 317 verses · 45%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 274 verses · 39%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 112 verses · 16%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Eat 128×, Shall eat 38×, Ye shall eat 30×
- American Standard Version: Eat 105×, Ye shall eat 28×, Shall eat 26×
- Berean Standard Bible: Eat 166×, Ate 21×, Consumed 20×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Eat 175×, Will eat 39×, You shall eat 36×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H398 across 809 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 164 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H398 across 808 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 204 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H398 across 784 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 155 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 25 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H398 across 946 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 134 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
15 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 15 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. אָכַל Ex 34:28 +; אָֽכְלָה Nu 21:28 +, etc. Impf. יֹאכַל Gn 49:27 +; וַיֹּא֫כַל Gn 25:34 +; וַיֹּאכַ֑ל Gn 3:6 +; יֹאכֵ֑ל Lv 21:22 +; אֹכַל Gn 24:33 +; וָֽאֹכַ֫ל 27:33; וְאֹכֵ֑ל Is 44:19; וָֽאֹכֵל Gn 3:12, 13; 3 pl. יֹאכְלוּ Gn 32:33 +; יֹאכֵ֑לוּ Dt 18:8 +; etc. (for יוֹכְלוּ Ez 42:5 rd. יוצלו, יאצלו 𝔊 Ew Co); sf. יֹאכְלֶנּוּ Lv 7:6 +; תֹּאכַלְכֶם Is 33:11, etc., prob. also תְּאָכְלֵהוּ Jb 20:26, either as secondary form fr. תֹּא׳ (Ew§ 253 Di) or text. error (Ges§ 68. 1) > Pi., Thes KöI, 389; or Poʿel, Ki De MV; Imv. אֱכוֹל 1 K 18:41 +, etc.; Inf. abs. אָכוֹל Gn 2:16 +; cstr. אֲכֹל Nu 26:10 + 2 textual; לֶאֱכֹל Gn 24:33 +; לְאָכְלָה Je 12:9; Pt. אֹכֵל (אוֹכֵל) Gn 39:6 +, אֹכֶלֶת Ex 24:17 +, etc.— e.g. Exodus 34:28
- 1. eat, human subject Gn 3:11, 18 + oft.; mostly c. acc. Ex 16:35 +; also sq. מִן־ (eat of,—some of,—or from) Ex 34:15 Ru 2:14 +; sq. בְּ (eat of or at) Ex 12:43 f; abs. Dt 2:6 +; as act of worship Gn 31:54 (cf. 46:1) Ex 18:12; 24:11; 34:15 Dt 12:7, 18; 14:23, 26 Ju 9:27 +; of priests Ex 29:32 Lv 10:13 +; cf. אָכַל אֶל־הֶהָרִים Ez 18:6, 11, 15; 22:9 + 33:25 עַל־הַדָּם Co עַל־הֶהָרִים; (but RSRel. Sem.. i. 324 N would emend first 4 by last); eat up, finish eating Gn 43:2 (c. כלה) 1 K 13:28 +; אָכַל לֶחֶם = take a meal Gn 43:25 Ex 2:20 1 S 20:24 Je 41:1 +; so א׳ alone Gn 43:16 1 S 20:5 +; א׳ לֶחֶם = eat, get food Gn 3:19 2 K 4:8 +; Am 7:12 (i.e. spend one’s life) cf. Ec 5:16; לֹא א׳ ל׳ i.e. fast 1 S 28:20; 30:12 Ezr 10:6 cf. Dn 10:3; fig. א׳ אֶת־בְּשָׂרוֹ Ec 4:5 (i.e. waste away); eat words Je 15:16 (i.e. eagerly receive); of adultery, Pr 30:20 אָֽכְלָה וּמָֽחֲתָה פִּ֑יהָ וְאָֽמְרָה לֹא־פָעַלְתִּי אָֽוֶן׃; eat (taste) good fortune, א׳ בַּטּוֹבָה Jb 21:25; לְפִי אָכְלוֹ according to his eating, i.e. acc. to his needs in eating Ex 12:4; 16:16, 18 also v 21; cf. Jb 20:21 & sub אָכְלָה; אָכַל הַפְּרִי 2 K 19:29 Am 9:14, of peaceful enjoyment of results of labour; fig. of receiving consequences of action, good or bad Pr 1:31; 18:21 Ho 10:13 cf. וַיֹּאכַל גַּם־אָכוֹל אֶת־כַּסְפֵּנוּ Gn 31:15 i.e. he has reaped all the benefit, cf. Ho 7:9; fig. of mourner, אֵפֶר כַּלֶּחֶם אָכָ֑לְתִּי ψ 102:10 (cf. 80:6 Hiph., & As. akâl al âkul, bikîtum kurmatî = food I ate not, weeping (was) my refreshment HptASKT 166 f. Obv. l, 21, 22 ZimBP 34, 42); of gods, partaking of sacrifices Dt 32:38; fig. = destroy Dt 7:16 (cf. Nu 14:9); cf. Je 10:25; 30:16; 50:7 Ho 7:7. e.g. Genesis 3:11
- 2. of beasts, birds, etc., eat, devour; Gn 37:20, 33; 40:17, 19 1 K 13:28; 14:11; 16:4; 21:23, 24 Ho 2:14 +; specif. of locusts Jo 1:4; 2:25 2 Ch 7:13 cf. Am 4:9; moth Jb 13:28; flies ψ 78:45; worms Dt 28:39; also Ez 19:3, 6 (of Isr. under fig. of lion), cf. Je 50:7, 17; 51:34; also Ho 13:8 (of י׳ under fig. of lion), Ez 22:25 (נֶפֶשׁ אָכָ֑לוּ, of false proph. under fig. of lion). e.g. Genesis 37:20
- 3. fig. of fire, devour, consume Lv 6:3 (sq. 2 acc. consume offering to ashes) Na 3:13 Is 5:24 (in sim.), partic. of fire fr. י׳ Lv 10:2; 16:25 Ju 9:15 f 1 K 18:38 2 K 1:10, 12, 14 2 Ch 7:1; cf. Am. 1:4, 7, 10, 12, 14; 2:2, 5; 5:6 +; Dt 5:22 of fire at Sinai; of י׳ as fire (in judgment) Dt 4:24 כִּי י׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֵשׁ אֹכְלָה הוּא cf. Dt 9:3 Is 10:17 (‖ בּער) 30:27, 30; 33:14 (‖ מוֹקְדֵי עוֹלָם). e.g. Leviticus 6:3
- 4. of sword, devour, slay Dt 32:42 2 S 2:26; 11:25; 18:8 Ho 11:6 Je 2:30 12:12; cf. of devastation of land Is 1:7 Je 8:16. e.g. Deuteronomy 32:42
- 5. in genl. devour, consume, destroy (inanim. subj.) of drought Gn 31:40; of pestilence Ez 7:15; of forest 2 S 18:8; cf. Lv 26:38 וְאָֽכְלָה אֶתְכֶם אֶרֶץ אֹיְבֵיכֶם; of הַבֹּשֶׁת Je 3:24 (v. בֹּשֶׁת). e.g. Genesis 31:40
- 6. fig. of oppression, devour the poor, etc. Pr 30:14 Hb 3:14 cf. ψ 14:4; of bitter enmity לֶאֱכֹל אֶת־בְּשָׂרִי ψ 27:2. (cf. Jb 19:22). e.g. Proverbs 30:14
Niphal
- Pf. וְנֶאֱכַל cons. Ex 22:5 Impf. יֵאָכֵל Gn 6:21 +; וַיֵּאָכֵ֫ל Nu 12:12 etc.; Inf. abs. הֵאָכֹל Lv 7:18; 19:7; Pt. f. נֶאֱכֶ֫לֶת Lv 11:47;— e.g. Exodus 22:5
- 1. be eaten by man Ex 12:46; 13:3, 7; 21:28; 29:34 Lv 6:9, 16, 19, 23; 7:6, 15, 16(×2), 18; 11:41; 19:6, 7, 23; 22:30 Nu 28:17 Ez 45:21; of custom, usage Gn 6:21 Ex 12:16 Dt 12:22 Jb 6:6; of permission to eat Lv 7:19; 11:13, 34, 47(×2); 17:13; c. neg. be uneatable Je 24:2, 3, 8; 29:17. e.g. Exodus 12:46
- 2. be devoured by fire, consumed Zp 1:18; 3:8 Zc 9:4 Ez 23:25. e.g. Zephaniah 1:18
- 3. be wasted, destroyed, of flesh Nu 12:12 Je 30:16. e.g. Numbers 12:12
Pual
- Pf. אֻכְּלוּ be consumed with fire Ne 2:3, 13 cf. Na 1:10 (fig.); so Pt. אֻכָּל (= מְאֻכָּל Ew§ 169 d) Ex 3:2; by sword Is 1:20 תְּאֻכְּלוּ. e.g. Nehemiah 2:3
Hiphil
- Pf. 2 ms. sf. הֶאֱכַלְתָּם ψ 80:6, וְהַאֲכַלְתִּ֫י Is 49:26; sf. וְהַאֲכַלְתִּיךָ cons. Is 58:14; הֶאֱכַלְתִּיךְ Ez 16:19; וְהַאֲכַלְתִּים cons. Je 19:9; Impf. sf. יַאֲכִלֵנוּ Nu 11:4, 18, etc.; 2 ms. js. תַּאֲכֵל Eze 3:3; 1 s. אוֹכִיל Ho 11:4(?); Imv. הַאֲכִילֵהוּ Pr 25:21. etc.; Inf. לִהָכִיל Ez 21:33 (but Co לההל); Pt. מַאֲכִיל Je 23:15, etc.;— e.g. Psalms 80:6
- 1. cause to eat, feed with, sq. 2 acc. subj. mostly י׳; Ex 16:32 Dt 8:3, 16 Ez 3:2 Je 19:9; abs. Ho 11:4; cf. Nu 11:4, 18; fig. Je 9:14; 23:15 Is 49:26; 58:14 Ez 16:19; also ψ 80:6 הֶאֱכַלְתָּם לֶחֶם דִּמְעָ֑ה (cf. 102:10 Qal supr.); sq. acc. pers. + מן ψ 81:17, but also subj. man Pr 25:21; 1 K 22:27 2 Ch 18:26 וְהַאֲכִלֻהוּ לֶהֶם לַ֫חַץ of prison fare; sq. acc. pers. only 2 Ch 28:15, cf. Ez 3:3. e.g. Exodus 16:32
- 2. cause to devour, obj. sword Ez 21:23 (but on text vid. Co). e.g. Ezekiel 21:23
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. eat (Aramaic أَكَلَ, As. akâlu DlW, Aramaic אֲכַל, ܐܶܟܰܠ )—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אָכַל
- √אך to rub,
- 1. to gnaw, eat, consume. Inf. in Y. freq. לוֹכַל = לֶאֱכוֹל. Ber. I, 1; a. v. fr.
- 2. trnsf. to absorb, occupy, take away. Y. Shebu. VII, 38ᵃ בשרבית אוֹכֶלֶת בו when interests gnaw on (absorb) the property. Y. Erub. IV, 21ᵈ bot. ד׳ אמות אוֹכְלוֹת וכ׳ four cubits entering into the area of Tiberias. Num. R. s. 4 כמה לוחות אוֹכְלוֹת how much space did the tablets occupy &c.? B. Bath. 14ᵃ (interchanging with איגרות, Var. אוגדות, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 5, 6).
- 3. (euphem.) to sleep with. Keth. V, 9, differ. of opin. ib. 65ᵇ; Y. ib. 30ᵇ top a. bot.
- to be eaten &c. Zeb. I, 3; Ber. I, 1; a. fr.
- to consume, burn. Tam. I, 4 המְאוּכָּלוֹת הפנימיות (Talm. ed. המעו׳) the thoroughly lighted coals in the centre; Y. Yoma II, 39ᶜ
- to give to eat, cause to eat. Keth. V, 3 היבם אינו מַאֵכִיל וכ׳ the Yabam does not transfer the privilege of eating T’rumah to his sister-in-law. Kidd. 31ᵃ יש מאכיל וכ׳ one may feed his father on pheasants &c.; a. fr.
- 1. to be consumed, burnt up, digested. Ber. VIII, 7 עד כדי שיִתְאַכֵּל וכ׳ Ar. (ed. שיתע׳) until the food is digested (or absorbed) in his bowels. Tam. II, 1; a. e.
- 2. to be worn off, spent. Snh. VI, 12 Y. ed. נתא׳ הבשר (Mish. ib. VI, 6 נתע׳) when the flesh of the corpse was gone. Cant. R. to IV, 4 שלא נתא׳ אחת מהן none of them was worn off. Kidd. 59ᵃ נתא׳ המעות the money was spent; a. e.
אֲכַל
- 1. same.—Inf. מֵיכַל, מֵיכוּל. Targ. Gen. II, 16; a. fr.—Y. Ter. VIII, 46ᵃ כד אתון יֵיכלון when they came and were about eating; ib. (more corr.) אתון מיכל; a. fr.
- 2. with קרצי prop. to eat (the bread of) destruction, eat the informer’s bread, hence to inform against. Dan. III, 8; VI, 25.—Targ. Ps. XV, 3; a. fr.—Gitt. 56ᵃ איכול בהו קו׳; Lam. R. to IV, 2 איכול קרצהון I will inform against them. e.g. Daniel 3:8
- to give to eat, to support. Y. Ter. X, 47ᵇ bot. אוכלה ליה he gave it to him to eat. Gen. R. s. 48, end (read:) אוכלית אשקית לוי hast thou given (thy guest) to eat? to drink? do escort him, i.e. perform thy duties fully. Y. Kidd. I, 61ᵇ הוה מייכל לאבוי וכ׳ fed his father on &c.; a. fr.
- , אִתְאָכִיל to be eaten, consumed. Targ. Ps. LXVIII, 23; a. fr. Tanḥ. Emor, 6 ומה דהבא מִתְאֲכִיל וכ׳; Lev. R. s. 27 ומה זה וכ׳ what is this? do they eat gold &c.? Kidd. 59ᵃ קא מתאכלי were eaten up (spent). [אכלי Af. of כלי to cry, v. כלי.]
אֲכַל II
- (sec. r. of כול) to measure. Ned. 51ᵃ ליכיל לי מר please measure for me. Ruth R. introd. 2. הא … סאה תקום אכול (read סאתה קום) here is the bag and here the measure, get up and fill it; v. כּוּל.
אֹכֶל
- , v. אוֹכֶל
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Forms in the corpus
The 494 distinct written forms H398 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 434 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H398, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
- אכילה ʼăkîylâh H396 food
- אכל ʼăkal H399 to eat
- אכל ʼôkel H400 food
- מאכל maʼăkâl H3978 food
- מאכלת maʼăkeleth H3979 knife
- מאכלת maʼăkôleth H3980 fuel
- מכלת makkôleth H4361 food
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 670 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 703 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:16
- Exodus 2:20
- Leviticus 3:17
- Numbers 6:3
- Deuteronomy 2:6
- Joshua 5:11
- Judges 6:21
- Ruth 2:14
- 1 Samuel 1:7
- 2 Samuel 2:26
- 1 Kings 1:25
- 2 Kings 1:10
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
