Word Study · Strong's H402 · Hebrew
אׇכְלָה
oklah
ok-law'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼoklâh
“food”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
food
Rendered in the KJV as
consume, devour, eat, food, meat.
- 18occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 5 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 6inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 18 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 6
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃8
- לְאָכְלָ֑ה5
- לְאָכְלָ֔ה2
- לְאָכְלָ֛ה1
- לְאָכְלָ֜ה1
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃ ס1
How it is rendered · 6
- to food6
- into food5
- for food3
- for fuel2
- for devouring1
- into fuel1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- preposition + noun · feminine singular18
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HR/Ncfsa · 18
All 18, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Ezekiel10 of 18 · 56%
- Genesis4 of 18 · 22%
- Leviticus2 of 18 · 11%
- Exodus1 of 18 · 6%
- Jeremiah1 of 18 · 6%
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Genesis4 occurrences
- Genesis 1:29לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularThen 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.here: to food
- Genesis 1:30לְאָכְלָ֑הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularAnd 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.here: to food
- Genesis 6:21לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularYou are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”here: into food
- Genesis 9:3לְאָכְלָ֑הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularEverything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.here: into food
Leviticus2 occurrences
- Leviticus 11:39לְאָכְלָ֑הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularIf an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.here: to food
- Leviticus 25:6לְאָכְלָ֔הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularWhatever 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,here: to food
Ezekiel10 occurrences
- Ezekiel 15:4לְאָכְלָ֑הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularNo, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?here: for fuel
- Ezekiel 15:6לְאָכְלָ֑הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularTherefore 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.here: for fuel
- Ezekiel 21:32לְאָכְלָ֔הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularYou will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”here: into fuel
- Ezekiel 23:37לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularFor 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.here: to food
- Ezekiel 29:5לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularI 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.here: for food
- Ezekiel 34:5לְאָכְלָ֛הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularThey were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.here: into food
- Ezekiel 34:8לְאָכְלָ֜הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singular‘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,here: into food
- Ezekiel 34:10לְאָכְלָֽה׃ סleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularThis 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.’here: into food
- Ezekiel 35:12לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularThen 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!’here: for devouring
- Ezekiel 39:4לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singularOn 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.here: for food