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# אֲכִילָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H396

**an eating** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

an eating [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/396/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲכִילָה: n.f. an eating, meal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/396/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. an eating, a meal 1 K 19:8 (on form v. BaNB 136).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the food (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 19:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.19.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.19.8/#tree)

וַיָּ֖קָם וַיֹּ֣אכַל וַיִּשְׁתֶּ֑ה וַיֵּ֜לֶךְ בְּכֹ֣חַ ׀ הָאֲכִילָ֣ה הַהִ֗יא אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יוֹם֙ וְאַרְבָּעִ֣ים לַ֔יְלָה עַ֛ד הַ֥ר הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים חֹרֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* and he.arose and he.ate and he.drank and he.went in the.strength of the.food (the) that forty day\[s\] and forty night\[s\] to the.mountain of.(the) God Horeb

*JPS 1917:* And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meal forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/396/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).