TBESH · H3978
מַאֲכָל · ma.a.khal · food
food, fruit, meat
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ma.a.khal H3978
מַאֲכָל (ma.a.khal) means “food” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
מַאֲכָל Hebrew · H3978 30 tagged occurrences in 29 verses
Pronunciation guide: mah-ak-awl' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H398 (אָכַל); an eatable (includ. provender, flesh and fruit)
KJV glosses: food, fruit, (bake-)meat(-s), victual.
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How translators render H3978
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| food | 5 |
| for food | 5 |
| of food | 3 |
| as food | 2 |
| the food | 2 |
| abundant supplies | 1 |
| and food | 1 |
| and fruit | 1 |
| and his food | 1 |
| fruit | 1 |
| goods | 1 |
| its food | 1 |
| other food | 1 |
| produce fruit | 1 |
| something to eat | 1 |
| to be devoured | 1 |
| your food | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| meat | 6 |
| for food | 3 |
| for meat | 3 |
| shall be meat | 3 |
| and the meat | 2 |
| and fruit | 1 |
| and meat | 1 |
| and their meat | 1 |
| and thy meat | 1 |
| her food | 1 |
| of all manner | 1 |
| of victual | 1 |
| or any meat | 1 |
| shall be for meat | 1 |
| thereof shall be for meat | 1 |
| thou unto thee of all food | 1 |
| to be meat | 1 |
| your meat | 1 |
Verses containing H3978
Page 1 of 1. 29 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 2:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Read word by word - Genesis 3:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 6:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
Read word by word - Genesis 40:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
Read word by word - Leviticus 19:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 20:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
Read word by word - Judges 14:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So 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.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 10:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 12:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.41
- 2 Chronicles 9:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants, the attire of his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 11:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He strengthened their fortifications and put officers in them, with supplies of food, oil, and wine.
Read word by word - Ezra 3:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 9:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.
Read word by word - Job 33:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
Read word by word - Psalms 44:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 44.12
- Psalms 74:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
Read word by word - Psalms 79:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
Read word by word - Proverbs 6:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.
Read word by word - Isaiah 62:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 7:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 16:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 19:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 34:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 4:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 47:12
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
Read word by word - Daniel 1:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”
Read word by word - Habakkuk 1:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.
Read word by word - Haggai 2:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?’” “No,” replied the priests.
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