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Lexicon :: Strong's H402 - 'āḵlâ

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אָכְלָה
Transliteration
'āḵlâ
Pronunciation
ok-law'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 85b

Strong’s Definitions

אׇכְלָה ʼoklâh, ok-law'; feminine of H401; food:—consume, devour, eat, food, meat.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's H402 in the following manner: meat (8x), devour (3x), fuel (3x), eat (2x), consume (1x), food (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x
The KJV translates Strong's H402 in the following manner: meat (8x), devour (3x), fuel (3x), eat (2x), consume (1x), food (1x).

  1. food

    1. food, eating

    2. object of devouring, consuming

      1. by wild beasts (figurative)

      2. in fire

      3. of judgment (figurative)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אׇכְלָה ʼoklâh, ok-law'; feminine of H401; food:—consume, devour, eat, food, meat.
STRONGS H402: Abbreviations
אָכְלָה 17 noun feminine food, eating (with some verbal force, compare DrJPh xi. 217) only P, & Ezekiel; always לְאָכְלָה.
1. especially in phrase like לָכֶם יִהְיֶה לְאָ׳ Genesis 1:29; Genesis 6:21; Genesis 9:3; Leviticus 11:39; so Leviticus 25:6 וְהָיְתָה שַׁבַּת הָאָרֶץ לָכֶם לְאָבְלָה compare נָתַן לְא׳ Genesis 1:30; Exodus 16:15.
2. devouring, by wild beasts, only figurative of ravaged people Ezekiel 29:5; Ezekiel 34:5, 8, 10; Ezekiel 39:4, compare Ezekiel 35:12.
3. consumimg, in fire Ezekiel 15:4, 6, of fire-sacrifice of children Ezekiel 23:37; figurative of judgment of י׳ Ezekiel 21:37; (compare also infinitive of אָכַל).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:29; 1:30; 6:21; 9:3

Exodus

16:15

Leviticus

11:39; 25:6

Ezekiel

15:4; 15:6; 23:37; 29:5; 34:5; 34:8; 34:10; 35:12; 39:4

H402

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H402 matches the Hebrew אָכְלָה ('āḵlâ),
which occurs 18 times in 18 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:21 - Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15 - When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?”[fn] For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39 - “And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - The Sabbath of the land[fn] shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves[fn] and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:9 - Is my heritage to me like a hyena’s lair?
Are the birds of prey against her all around?
Go, assemble all the wild beasts;
bring them to devour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:4 - Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel. When the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:6 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:32 - You shall be fuel for the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be no more remembered, for I the LORD have spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:37 - For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up[fn] to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - And I will cast you out into the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your streams;
you shall fall on the open field,
and not be brought together or gathered.
To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens
I give you as food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:5 - So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:12 - And you shall know that I am the LORD. “I have heard all the revilings that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 39:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:4 - You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
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