Definition
a primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively)
Traditional renderings: × at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, × freely, × in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, × quite.
Traditional renderings: × at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, × freely, × in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, × quite.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אָכַל:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
810 total
- Deuteronomy 15:22תֹּאכֲלֶ֑נּוּ · Eat itEat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
- Deuteronomy 15:23תֹאכֵ֑ל · eatBut you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Deuteronomy 16:3תֹאכַ֤ל · eat; תֹּֽאכַל־ · you are to eatYou must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 16:7וְאָ֣כַלְתָּ֔ · and eat itAnd you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.
- Deuteronomy 16:8תֹּאכַ֣ל · you must eatFor six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
- Deuteronomy 18:1יֹאכֵלֽוּן׃ · They are to eatThe Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the food offerings to the LORD; that is their inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 18:8יֹאכֵ֑לוּ · They shall eatThey shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.
- Deuteronomy 20:14וְאָֽכַלְתָּ֙ · and you shall useBut the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 20:19תֹאכֵ֔ל · you can eat their fruitWhen you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
- Deuteronomy 23:24וְאָכַלְתָּ֧ · you may eatWhen you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.
- Deuteronomy 26:12וְאָכְל֥וּ · that they may eatWhen you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 26:14אָכַ֨לְתִּי · eatenI have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded me.
- Deuteronomy 27:7וְאָכַ֣לְתָּ · eating themThere you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 28:31תֹאכַל֮ · eatYour ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
- Deuteronomy 28:33יֹאכַ֥ל · will eatA people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
- Deuteronomy 28:39תֹאכְלֶ֖נּוּ · will eat themYou will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
- Deuteronomy 28:51וְ֠אָכַל · They will eatThey will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:53וְאָכַלְתָּ֣ · Then you will eatThen you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
- Deuteronomy 28:55יֹאכֵ֔ל · he will eat…refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
- Deuteronomy 28:57תֹאכְלֵ֥ם · eat them…the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 29:6אֲכַלְתֶּ֔ם · You ateYou ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 31:17לֶֽאֱכֹ֔ל · consumedOn that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
- Deuteronomy 31:20וְאָכַ֥ל · they will eatWhen I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.
- Deuteronomy 32:13וַיֹּאכַ֖ל · and fed himHe made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,
- Deuteronomy 32:22וַתֹּ֤אכַל · it consumesFor a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
- Deuteronomy 32:38יֹאכֵ֔לוּ · ate…which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!
- Deuteronomy 32:42תֹּאכַ֣ל · devoursI will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
- Joshua 5:11וַיֹּ֨אכְל֜וּ · they ateThe day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
- Joshua 5:12בְּאָכְלָם֙ · after they had eaten; וַיֹּאכְל֗וּ · they began to eatAnd the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.
- Joshua 24:13אֹכְלִֽים׃ · and eatSo I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’
- Judges 6:21וַתֹּ֤אכַל · and consumedThen the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
- Judges 9:15וְתֹאכַ֖ל · and consumeBut the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
- Judges 9:20וְתֹאכַ֛ל · and consume; וְתֹאכַ֖ל · and consumeBut if not, may fire come from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo, and may fire come from the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo and consume Abimelech.”
- Judges 9:27וַיֹּֽאכְלוּ֙ · and as they ateAnd after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.
- Judges 13:4תֹּאכְלִ֖י · to eatNow please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
- Judges 13:7תֹּֽאכְלִי֙ · eatBut he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
- Judges 13:14תֹאכַ֗ל · eat; תֹּאכַ֑ל · eatShe must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
- Judges 13:16אֹכַ֣ל · eatAnd the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
- Judges 14:9וְאָכֹ֔ל · and ate it; וַיֹּאכֵ֑לוּ · and they ate itSo he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
- Judges 14:14מֵהָֽאֹכֵל֙ · Out of the eaterSo he said to them: “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet.” For three days they were unable to explain the riddle.
- Judges 19:4וַיֹּאכְלוּ֙ · eatingHis father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay, so he remained with him three days, eating, drinking, and lodging there.
- Judges 19:6וַיֹּאכְל֧וּ · of them ateSo they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry.”
- Judges 19:8וַיֹּאכְל֖וּ · of them ateOn the fifth day, he got up early in the morning to depart, but the girl’s father said, “Please refresh your heart.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.
- Judges 19:21וַיֹּאכְל֖וּ · and ateSo he brought him to his house and fed his donkeys. And they washed their feet and ate and drank.
- Ruth 2:14וְאָכַ֣לְתְּ · haveAt mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.