TBESH · H0402
אׇכְלָה · okh.lah · food
1) food 1a) food, eating 1b) object of devouring, consuming 1b1) by wild beasts (figurative) 1b2) in fire 1b3) of judgment (figurative)
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אׇכְלָה (okh.lah) means “food” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ok-law' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
אׇכְלָה · okh.lah · food
1) food 1a) food, eating 1b) object of devouring, consuming 1b1) by wild beasts (figurative) 1b2) in fire 1b3) of judgment (figurative)
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feminine of H401 (אֻכָל); food
KJV glosses: consume, devour, eat, food, meat.
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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 |
|---|---|
| as food | 4 |
| food | 4 |
| for food | 2 |
| for fuel | 2 |
| food for you | 1 |
| fuel | 1 |
| may eat | 1 |
| to devour | 1 |
| to devour her | 1 |
| to eat | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| for fuel | 2 |
| for meat | 2 |
| shall be meat | 2 |
| to devour | 2 |
| and they became meat | 1 |
| became meat | 1 |
| of which ye may eat | 1 |
| that they may not be meat | 1 |
| thee for meat | 1 |
| thou shalt be for fuel | 1 |
| to be devoured | 1 |
| to thee and it shall be for food | 1 |
| us to consume | 1 |
| you to eat | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 18 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
Read word by wordAnd to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Read word by wordYou 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 wordEverything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
Read word by wordWhen the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
Read word by wordIf an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.
Read word by wordWhatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
Read word by wordIs not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
Read word by wordNo, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.
Read word by wordYou will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.37
For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.
Read word by wordI will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.
Read word by wordThey were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.
Read word by word‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,
Read word by wordThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand from them My flock and remove them from tending the flock, so that they can no longer feed themselves. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.’
Read word by wordThen you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’
Read word by wordOn the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
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