Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H399
אֲכַל
akalak-al'
to devour
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼăkal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H399is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H399
{to eat (literally or figuratively)}
The King James renders it: [phrase] accuse, devour, eat.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
akal is rendered "to devour". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Seven of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 3:8At this time some astrologers came forward and maliciously accused the Jews,
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
At this time some astrologers came forward and maliciously accused the Jews,
Daniel 3:8וַאֲכַ֥לוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's seven uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- devouring2
- and they ate1
- devour1
- he ate1
- so it may devour1
- they had eaten1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אָֽכְלָ֣ה2
- אֲכַ֤לוּ1
- אֲכֻ֖לִי1
- וַאֲכַ֥לוּ1
- וְתֵאכֻל֙1
- יֵאכֻ֔ל1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular2AVqrfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AC/Vqp3mp
- AC/Vqu3fs1AC/Vqu3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVqp3mp
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singular1AVqv2fs
Daniel
seven uses
At this time some astrologers came forward and maliciously accused the Jews,
- וַאֲכַ֥לוּvaakhaluconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and they ate
At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
- יֵאכֻ֔לyekhulverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he ate
At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
- אֲכַ֤לוּʾakhaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they had eaten
Suddenly another beast appeared, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. So it was told, ‘Get up and gorge yourself on flesh!’
- אֲכֻ֖לִיʾakhuliverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: devour
After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.
- אָֽכְלָ֣הʾakhelahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: devouring
Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.
- אָֽכְלָ֣הʾakhelahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: devouring
This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down, and crush it.
- וְתֵאכֻל֙vetekhulAC/Vqu3fstagged: so it may devour
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.