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Lexicon :: Strong's H3978 - ma'ăḵāl

Aa
מַאֲכָל
Transliteration
ma'ăḵāl
Pronunciation
mah-ak-awl'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 85d

Strong’s Definitions

מַאֲכָל maʼăkâl, mah-ak-awl'; from H398; an eatable (includ. provender, flesh and fruit):—food, fruit, (bake-)meat(-s), victual.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's H3978 in the following manner: meat (22x), food (5x), fruit (1x), manner (1x), victual (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's H3978 in the following manner: meat (22x), food (5x), fruit (1x), manner (1x), victual (1x).

  1. food, fruit, meat

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַאֲכָל maʼăkâl, mah-ak-awl'; from H398; an eatable (includ. provender, flesh and fruit):—food, fruit, (bake-)meat(-s), victual.
STRONGS H3978: Abbreviations
† מַאֲכָל 30 noun masculineJudges 14:14 (feminine Habakkuk 1:16) food — מ׳ Genesis 2:9 + 21 times; construct מַאֲכַל Genesis 40:7 + 3 times; suffix מַאֲכָֽלְךָ Ezekiel 4:10; מַאֲכָלוֺ Habakkuk 1:16; מַאֲכָלָהּ Proverbs 6:8; מַאֲכַלְכֶם Daniel 1:10 — food, in general. Genesis 6:21; 1 Kings 10:5 2 Chronicles 9:4; Haggai 2:12; opposed to drink Ezra 3:7; 2 Chronicles 11:11; Daniel 1:10; מַאֲכַל תַּאֲוָה Job 33:20; figurative of peoples as fishes, food for Chaldeans Habakkuk 1:16; applied to fruit Genesis 2:9; Genesis 3:6 (of tree טוֺב לְמ׳) compare עֵץמֿ׳ Leviticus 19:23; Deuteronomy 20:20; Nehemiah 9:25; Ezekiel 47:12 (twice in verse); applied to דָּגָן Isaiah 62:8; applied to honey Judges 14:14; to flour 1 Chronicles 12:41 where apposition קֶמַח; to food of ants Proverbs 6:8 (|| לֶחֶם); to baker's work Genesis 40:17 compare Ezekiel 4:10; applied to carcasses, as food for beasts & birds of prey Deuteronomy 28:26; Psalm 79:2; compare Psalm 44:12 (צאֹן מ׳, simile of suffering people) Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 19:7; Jeremiah 34:20; Psalm 74:14.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:9; 2:9; 3:6; 6:21; 40:7; 40:17

Leviticus

19:23

Deuteronomy

20:20; 28:26

Judges

14:14; 14:14

1 Kings

10:5

2 Chronicles

9:4; 11:11

Ezra

3:7

Nehemiah

9:25

Job

33:20

Psalms

44:12; 74:14; 79:2

Proverbs

6:8; 6:8

Isaiah

62:8

Jeremiah

7:33; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20

Ezekiel

4:10; 4:10; 47:12

Daniel

1:10; 1:10

Habakkuk

1:16; 1:16; 1:16

Haggai

2:12

H3978

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3978 matches the Hebrew מַאֲכָל (ma'ăḵāl),
which occurs 30 times in 29 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:21 - And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - And in the top basket were all sorts of cooked meats for Pharaoh; and the birds were taking them out of the baskets on my head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:23 - And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20 - Only those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and put to destruction: and you are to make walls of attack against the town till it is taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:14 - And he said, Out of the taker of food came food, and out of the strong came the sweet. And at the end of three days they were still not able to give the answer.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:5 - And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40 - And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:4 - And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:11 - And he made the walled towns strong, and he put captains in them and stores of food, oil, and wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7 - And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 - And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:20 - He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:11 - You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14 - The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:2 - They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:8 - She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:8 - The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33 - And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20 - Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:10 - And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:12 - And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:10 - And the captain of the unsexed servants said to Daniel, I am in fear of my lord the king, who has given orders about your food and your drink; what if he sees you looking less happy than the other young men of your generation? then you would have put my head in danger from the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:16 - For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:12 - If anyone has some holy flesh folded in the skirt of his robe, will bread or soup or wine or oil or any other food be made holy if touched by his skirt? And the priests answering said, No.
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