Hebrew noun (masculine) · H400
אֹכֶל
okelo'-kel
food
43 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼôkel
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H400is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 24spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H400
food
The King James renders it: eating, food, meal(-time), meat, prey, victuals.
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
okel is rendered "food". It stands 43 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Sixteen of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 14:11The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.
The first use
The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.
Genesis 14:11אָכְלָ֖ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Sixteen of the word's forty-three uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- food24
- food their5
- food his4
- food of3
- the food2
- and to food your1
- food its1
- food your1
- for food1
- the meal1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 43, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
24 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
- אֹֽכֶל׃8
- אֹ֑כֶל4
- אֹ֣כֶל4
- אֹ֥כֶל3
- אֹ֙כֶל֙2
- אֹ֭כֶל2
- אָכְל֑וֹ2
- אָכְלָ֣ם2
- אֹ֖כֶל1
- אֹ֧כֶל1
- אֹ֔כֶל1
- אֹ֣כֶל׀1
and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular24HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural5HNcmsc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular5HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HTd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp2mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Genesis
sixteen uses
The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.
- אָכְלָ֖םʾakhelamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: food their
Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.
- אֹ֙כֶל֙ʾokhelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
- אֹ֥כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”
- הָאֹ֤כֶלhaokhelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the food
During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.
- אֹ֣כֶל׀ʾokhelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
- אֹ֖כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
- אֹ֧כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
- אֹֽכֶל׃ʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.
- אֹֽכֶל׃ʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
- אֹֽכֶל׃ʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
- אֹֽכֶל׃ʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.
- אֹֽכֶל׃ʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.”
- אֹ֑כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.
- אֹ֔כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
- אֹֽכֶל׃ʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”
- וּֽלְאָכְלְכֶ֛םuleakhelekhemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and to food your
Exodus
four uses
If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.
- אָכְל֔וֹʾakhelonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food his
This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”
- אָכְל֑וֹʾakhelonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food his
When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
- אָכְל֖וֹʾakhelonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food his
Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
- אָכְל֑וֹʾakhelonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food his
Leviticus
two uses
Any food coming into contact with water from that pot will be unclean, and any drink in such a container will be unclean.
- הָאֹ֜כֶלhaokhelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the food
You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
- אָכְלֶֽךָ׃ʾakhelekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: food your
Deuteronomy
three uses
You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”
- אֹ֣כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,
- אֹ֣כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
- אֹ֑כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Ruth
one use
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
- הָאֹ֗כֶלhaokhelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the meal
Job
five uses
They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
- אֹֽכֶל׃ʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
- אֹ֣כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.
- אֹ֥כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
- אֹֽכֶל׃ʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.
- אֹ֑כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Psalms
six uses
They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
- אֹ֥כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
- אָכְלָ֥םʾakhelamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: food their
The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
- אָכְלָֽם׃ʾakhelamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: food their
All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
- אָכְלָ֣םʾakhelamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: food their
They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
- אֹ֭כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
- אָכְלָ֣םʾakhelamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: food their
Proverbs
one use
Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
- אֹ֭כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Lamentations
two uses
All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
- בְּאֹ֖כֶלbeokhelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for food
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- אֹ֙כֶל֙ʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Joel
one use
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?
- אֹ֣כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Habakkuk
one use
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
- אֹ֑כֶלʾokhelnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Malachi
one use
“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
- אָכְלֽוֹ׃ʾakhelonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food its
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.