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H0398אָכַלa.khal

to eatPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 65
  2. 52
  3. 104
  4. 27
  5. 80
  6. 4
  7. 17
  8. 4
  9. 30
  10. 24
  11. 37
  12. 33
  13. 2
  14. 7
  15. 4
  16. 9
  17. 1
  18. 22
  19. 30
  20. 15
  21. 15
  22. 3
  23. 54
  24. 44
  25. 4
  26. 55
  27. 5
  28. 14
  29. 10
  30. 15
  31. 1
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 3
  34. 6
  35. 2
  36. 2
  37. 1
  38. 8
  39. 1

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810 occurrences in 701 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. Jeremiah 5:14

    For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.

    וַאֲכָלָֽתַם׃ (אֲכָלָֽתַ) 'a.kha.La.ta “it will consume”

  2. Jeremiah 5:17

    They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled t

    וְאָכַ֨ל (אָכַ֨ל) 'a.Khal “it will devour”יֹאכְלוּ֙ yo.khe.Lu “they will devour”יֹאכַ֤ל yo.Khal “it will devour”יֹאכַ֥ל yo.Khal “it will devour”

  3. Jeremiah 7:21

    These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.

    וְאִכְל֥וּ (אִכְל֥וּ) 'ikh.Lu “eat”

  4. Jeremiah 8:16

    The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.

    וַיֹּֽאכְלוּ֙ (יֹּֽאכְלוּ֙) i.yo.khe.Lu “they have consumed”

  5. Jeremiah 9:15

    So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

    מַאֲכִילָ֛ם (מַאֲכִילָ֛) ma.'a.khi.La “[am] about to feed”

  6. Jeremiah 10:25

    Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.

    אָכְל֣וּ 'a.khe.Lu “they have consumed”וַאֲכָלֻ֙הוּ֙ (אֲכָלֻ֙) 'a.kha.Lu. “they have consumed”

  7. Jeremiah 12:12

    Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.

    אֹֽכְלָ֔ה 'o.khe.Lah “[is] devouring”

  8. Jeremiah 15:3

    And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.

    לֶאֱכֹ֥ל (אֱכֹ֥ל) 'e.Khol “devour”

  9. Jeremiah 15:16

    But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.

    וָאֹ֣כְלֵ֔ם (אֹ֣כְלֵ֔) 'O.khe.Le “I ate”

  10. Jeremiah 16:8

    And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

    לֶאֱכֹ֖ל (אֱכֹ֖ל) 'e.Khol “eat”

  11. Jeremiah 17:27

    But if you do not give ear to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and to let no weight be lifted and taken through the doors of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: then I will put a fire in its doorways, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem, and it will neve

    וְאָֽכְלָ֛ה (אָֽכְלָ֛ה) 'a.khe.Lah “it will consume”

  12. Jeremiah 19:9

    I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

    וְהַֽאֲכַלְתִּ֞ים (הַֽאֲכַלְתִּ֞י) ha.'a.khal.Ti “I will make eat”יֹאכֵ֑לוּ yo.Khe.lu “they will eat”

  13. Jeremiah 21:14

    I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.

    וְאָכְלָ֖ה (אָכְלָ֖ה) 'a.khe.Lah “it will consume”

  14. Jeremiah 22:15

    Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

    אָכַ֣ל 'a.Khal “did he eat”

  15. Jeremiah 23:15

    So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.

    מַאֲכִ֤יל ma.'a.Khil “[am] about to make eat”

  16. Jeremiah 24:2

    One basket had very good figs, like the figs which first come to growth: and the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were of no use for food.

    תֵֽאָכַ֖לְנָה te.'a.Khal.nah “they will be eaten”

  17. Jeremiah 24:3

    Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad very bad, and of no use for food, they are so bad.

    תֵאָכַ֖לְנָה te.'a.Khal.nah “they will be eaten”

  18. Jeremiah 24:8

    And like the bad figs which are so bad that they are of no use for food, so I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his chiefs and the rest of Jerusalem who are still in this land, and those who are in the land of Egypt:

    תֵאָכַ֖לְנָה te.'a.Khal.nah “they will be eaten”

  19. Jeremiah 29:5

    Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;

    וְאִכְל֖וּ (אִכְל֖וּ) 'ikh.Lu “eat”

  20. Jeremiah 29:17

    This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will send on them the sword and need of food and disease, and will make them like bad figs, which are of no use for food, they are so bad.

    תֵאָכַ֖לְנָה te.'a.Khal.nah “they will be eaten”

  21. Jeremiah 29:28

    For he has sent to us in Babylon saying, The time will be long: go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them.

    וְאִכְל֖וּ (אִכְל֖וּ) 'ikh.Lu “eat”

  22. Jeremiah 30:16

    For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your g

    אֹכְלַ֙יִךְ֙ (אֹכְלַ֙יִ) 'o.khe.La.yi “[those who] devour”יֵאָכֵ֔לוּ ye.'a.Khe.lu “they will be devoured”

  23. Jeremiah 31:29

    In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.

    אָ֣כְלוּ 'A.khe.lu “they have eaten”

  24. Jeremiah 31:30

    But everyone will be put to death for the evil which he himself has done: whoever has taken bitter grapes will himself have his teeth put on edge.

    הָאֹכֵ֥ל (אֹכֵ֥ל) 'o.Khel “eats”

  25. Jeremiah 41:1

    Now it came about in the seventh month that Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king's seed, having with him ten men, came to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, in Mizpah; and they had a meal together in Mizpah.

    וַיֹּ֨אכְלוּ (יֹּ֨אכְלוּ) i.Yo.khe.lu “they were eating”