אׇכְלָה
ʼoklâh · H402 · Hebrew · 18 occurrences
Meanings
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food
Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink in order to maintain life and growth
ExamplesGenesis 1:29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
Genesis 1:30 and to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
Genesis 6:21 “As for you, take for yourself some of every food that is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and them.”
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fuel
Things that are burnt up by fire as if it were eaten by it
ExamplesEzekiel 15:4 “If it has been put into the fire for fuel, and the fire has consumed both of its ends and its middle part has been charred, is it then good for anything?
Ezekiel 15:6 “Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As 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;
Ezekiel 21:32 ‘You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
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prey
Things that are seized as if they were food
ExamplesEzekiel 35:12 “Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, ‘They are desolate; they have been given to us as food.’
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
18 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 34
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- βρῶσις brōsis · G1035 · to eat, eating, a meal
- Greek βρῶσις emphasizes the abstract act of eating or the concrete substance eaten (food), while Hebrew אׇכְלָה focuses on consumption/devouring with verbal force; both denote food/eating semantically but differ in their aspectual profiles (Greek noun of action vs. Hebrew infinitive construct with verbal overtones).
- φάγω phágō · G5315 · to eat, to drink, to consume food
- Greek φάγω (phágō, G5315) serves as the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew אׇכְלָה (ʼoklâh, H402) in contexts of consumption and eating, capturing both the literal act of eating and the figurative sense of devouring/consuming that both lemmas share.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Food001003001003
- אׇכְלָה names food given for sustenance, as the green plants given to every animal and bird for food.
- Impact002001001024
- The word can describe a consuming or devastating force, such as fire that consumes what it touches.
- Possess002003002019
- אׇכְלָה can describe provisions gathered and kept as a supply, food set aside as a household's own store.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H402. oklah אָכְלָה17 noun feminine food, eating (with some verbal force, compare DrJPh…
אָכְלָה17 noun feminine food, eating (with some verbal force, compare DrJPh xi. 217) only P, & Ezekiel; always לְאָכְלָה,
1 especially in phrase like לְאָ יִהְיֶה ׳לָכֶם Gen 1:29; Gen 6:21; Gen 9:3; Lev 11:39; so Lev 25:6 לְאָבְלָה לָכֶם הָאָרֶץ שַׁבַּת וְהָיְתָה compare לְא ׳נָתַן Gen 1:30; Exo 16:15.
2 devouring, by wild beasts, only figurative of ravaged people Eze 29:5; Eze 34:5, Eze 34:8, Eze 34:10; Eze 39:4, compare Eze 35:12.
3 consumimg, in fire Eze 15:4, Eze 15:6, of fire-sacrifice of children Eze 23:37; figurative of judgment of ׳י Ezekiel 21:37; (compare also infinitive of אָכַל).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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