Strong's Hebrew · H398
H398 ʼâkal
אָכַל
aw-kal'
to eat
Looking for Greek G398 anaphaínō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H398. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
ʼâkal appears 809 times in Scripture, including Genesis 2:16 and Genesis 2:17. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to eat (literally or figuratively)
In the King James Version
× at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, × freely, × in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, × quite.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 809 times in Scripture
“And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,”
“but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.””
“The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,”
“but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’””
“When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.”
“Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’””
““For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.””
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
