אָכַל ʼâkal

Meaning

to eat (literally or figuratively)

In the King James Version: [idiom] at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, [idiom] freely, [idiom] in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, [idiom] quite.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Job 1:13 One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
• Job 1:16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
• Job 1:18 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
• Job 5:5 The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
• Job 6:6 Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
• Job 13:28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
• Job 15:34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
• Job 18:13 It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
• Job 20:21 Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.
• Job 20:26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
• Job 21:25 Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
• Job 22:20 ‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’
• Job 31:8 then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
• Job 31:12 For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.
• Job 31:17 if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
• Job 31:39 if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
• Job 34:3 For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
• Job 40:15 Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He feeds on grass like an ox.
• Job 42:11 All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
• Psalms 14:4 Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
• Psalms 18:8 Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
• Psalms 21:9 You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.
• Psalms 22:26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
• Psalms 22:29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him—even those unable to preserve their lives.
• Psalms 27:2 When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
• Psalms 41:9 Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
• Psalms 50:3 Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
• Psalms 50:13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
• Psalms 53:4 Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
• Psalms 59:15 They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
• Psalms 69:9 because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
• Psalms 78:24 He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
• Psalms 78:25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
• Psalms 78:29 So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
• Psalms 78:45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
• Psalms 78:63 Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
• Psalms 79:7 for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
• Psalms 80:5 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
• Psalms 81:16 But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
• Psalms 102:4 My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
• Psalms 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
• Psalms 105:35 They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.
• Psalms 106:20 They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
• Psalms 106:28 They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
• Psalms 127:2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.
• Psalms 128:2 For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
• Proverbs 1:31 So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
• Proverbs 13:2 From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence.
• Proverbs 13:25 A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.
• Proverbs 18:21 Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
• Proverbs 23:7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
• Proverbs 23:8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
• Proverbs 24:13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
• Proverbs 25:16 If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.
• Proverbs 25:21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
• Proverbs 25:27 It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
• Proverbs 27:18 Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.
• Proverbs 30:14 there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
• Proverbs 30:17 As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
• Proverbs 30:20 This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’