אָכַל
a.khal
1. to eat, devour, burn up, feed
a. (Qal)
1. to eat (human subject)
2. to eat, devour (of beasts and birds)
3. to devour, consume (of fire)
4. to devour, slay (of sword)
5. to devour, consume, destroy (inanimate subjects - ie, pestilence, drought)
6. to devour (of oppression)
b. (Niphal)
1. to be eaten (by men)
2. to be devoured, consumed (of fire)
3. to be wasted, destroyed (of flesh)
c. (Pual)
1. to cause to eat, feed with
2. to cause to devour
d. (Hiphil)
1. to feed
2. to cause to eat
e. (Piel)
1. consume
Aramaic equivalent: a.khal (אֲכַל "to devour" H0399)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 701 verses
- Isaiah 3:10 יֹאכֵֽלוּ׃
Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
- Isaiah 4:1 נֹאכֵ֔ל
In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
- Isaiah 5:17 יֹאכֵֽלוּ׃
Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
- Isaiah 5:24 כֶּאֱכֹ֨ל
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 7:15 יֹאכֵ֑ל
By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
- Isaiah 7:22 יֹאכַ֣ליֹאכֵ֔ל
and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.
- Isaiah 9:12 וַיֹּאכְל֥וּ
Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
- Isaiah 9:18 תֹּאכֵ֑ל
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
- Isaiah 9:20 וַיֹּ֥אכַליֹאכֵֽלוּ׃
They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.
- Isaiah 10:17 וְאָֽכְלָ֛ה
And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
- Isaiah 11:7 יֹֽאכַל־
The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
- Isaiah 21:5 אָכ֣וֹל
They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
- Isaiah 22:13 אָכֹ֥לאָכ֣וֹל
But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
- Isaiah 23:18 לֶאֱכֹ֥ל
Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.
- Isaiah 24:6 אָ֣כְלָה
Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.
- Isaiah 26:11 תֹאכְלֵֽם׃ס
O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!
- Isaiah 29:6 אוֹכֵלָֽה׃
you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.
- Isaiah 29:8 אוֹכֵ֗ל
as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
- Isaiah 30:24 יֹאכֵ֑לוּ
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
- Isaiah 30:27 אֹכָֽלֶת׃
Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
- Isaiah 30:30 אוֹכֵלָ֑ה
And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
- Isaiah 31:8 תֹּֽאכֲלֶ֑נּוּ
“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.
- Isaiah 33:11 תֹּאכַלְכֶֽם׃
You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
- Isaiah 33:14 אוֹכֵלָ֔ה
The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”
- Isaiah 36:12 לֶאֱכֹ֣ל
But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
- Isaiah 36:16 וְאִכְל֤וּ
Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,
- Isaiah 37:30 אָכ֤וֹלוְאָכוֹל
And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Isaiah 44:16 יֹאכֵ֔ל
He burns half of it in the fire, and he roasts meat on that half. He eats the roast and is satisfied. Indeed, he warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”
- Isaiah 44:19 וְאֹכֵ֑ל
And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
- Isaiah 49:26 וְהַאֲכַלְתִּ֤י
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- Isaiah 50:9 יֹאכְלֵֽם׃
Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
- Isaiah 51:8 יֹאכְלֵ֣םיֹאכְלֵ֣ם
For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
- Isaiah 55:1 וֶֽאֱכֹ֔לוּ
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
- Isaiah 55:2 וְאִכְלוּ־
Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
- Isaiah 55:10 לָאֹכֵֽל׃
For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
- Isaiah 56:9 לֶאֱכֹ֥ל
Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
- Isaiah 58:14 וְהַאֲכַלְתִּ֗יךָ
then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
- Isaiah 59:5 הָאֹכֵ֤ל
They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
- Isaiah 61:6 תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ
But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.
- Isaiah 62:9 יֹאכְלֻ֔הוּ
For those who harvest grain will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather grapes will drink the wine in My holy courts.”
- Isaiah 65:4 הָאֹֽכְלִים֙
sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
- Isaiah 65:13 יֹאכֵ֙לוּ֙
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
- Isaiah 65:21 וְאָכְל֖וּ
They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Isaiah 65:22 יֹאכֵ֑ל
No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
- Isaiah 65:25 יֹֽאכַל־
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
- Isaiah 66:17 אֹֽכְלֵי֙
“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 2:3 אֹכְלָ֣יו
Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her found themselves guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 2:7 לֶאֱכֹ֥ל
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
- Jeremiah 2:30 אָכְלָ֧ה
“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
- Jeremiah 3:24 אָֽכְלָ֛ה
From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.