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# אׇכְלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H402

**food** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

food [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/402/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָכְלָה: n.f. food, eating [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/402/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. food, eating (with some verbal force, cf. DrJPhl. xi.217) only P, & Ez always לְאָכְלָה, especially in phr. like לָכֶם יִהְיֶה לְאָ׳ Gn 1:29; 6:21; 9:3 Lv 11:39; so 25:6 וְהָיְתָה שַׁבַּת הָאָרֶץ לָכֶם לְאָכְלָה; cf. נָתַן לְא׳ Gn 1:30 Ex 16:15. devouring, by wild beasts, only fig. of ravaged people Ex 29:5 34:5, 8, 10; 39:4, cf. 35:12. consuming, in fire Ez 15:4, 6, of fire-sacrifice of children 23:37; fig. of judgment of י׳ Ez 21:37; (cf. also inf. of אָכַל).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: food (14); fuel (3); devouring (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 34:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.5/#tree)

וַתְּפוּצֶ֖ינָה מִבְּלִ֣י רֹעֶ֑ה וַתִּהְיֶ֧ינָה לְאָכְלָ֛ה לְכָל־חַיַּ֥ת הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה וַתְּפוּצֶֽינָה׃

*Word for word:* and they.have.been.scattered from not a.shepherd and they.have.become (into) food for every (the).animal of the.field and they.have.been.scattered

*JPS 1917:* So were they scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.

[Genesis 9:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.3/#tree)

כָּל־רֶ֙מֶשׂ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הוּא־חַ֔י לָכֶ֥ם יִהְיֶ֖ה לְאָכְלָ֑ה כְּיֶ֣רֶק עֵ֔שֶׂב נָתַ֥תִּי לָכֶ֖ם אֶת־כֹּֽל׃

*Word for word:* every creeping.thing which it \[is\].alive for you it.will.become (into) food like.\[the\] greenery of.plant\[s\] I.give to you (et) everything

*JPS 1917:* Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/402.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/402/): 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).