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Lexicon :: Strong's H402 - 'āḵlâ

Aa
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.
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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 BoxGen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

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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 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39 - And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:9 - My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:4 - See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:6 - For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:32 - You will be food for the fire; your blood will be drained out in the land; there will be no more memory of you: for I the Lord have said it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:37 - For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all the fish of your streams: you will go down on the face of the land; you will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:5 - And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:12 - And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:4 - On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food.
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