Hebrew noun (feminine) · H402
אׇכְלָה
oklahok-law'
food
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼoklâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H402is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H402
food
The King James renders it: consume, devour, eat, food, meat.
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
oklah is rendered "food". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:29Then 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.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Then 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.
Genesis 1:29לְאָכְלָֽה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's eighteen uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to food6
- into food5
- for food3
- for fuel2
- for devouring1
- into fuel1
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 18, 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
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃8
- לְאָכְלָ֑ה5
- לְאָכְלָ֔ה2
- לְאָכְלָ֛ה1
- לְאָכְלָ֜ה1
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃ ס1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular18HR/Ncfsa
Genesis
four uses
Then 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.
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to food
And 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.
- לְאָכְלָ֑הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to food
You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into food
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
- לְאָכְלָ֑הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into food
Exodus
one use
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to food
Leviticus
two uses
If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.
- לְאָכְלָ֑הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to food
Whatever 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,
- לְאָכְלָ֔הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to food
Jeremiah
one use
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: for food
Ezekiel
ten uses
No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?
- לְאָכְלָ֑הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: for fuel
Therefore 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.
- לְאָכְלָ֑הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: for fuel
You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
- לְאָכְלָ֔הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into fuel
For 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.
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to food
I 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.
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: for food
They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.
- לְאָכְלָ֛הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into food
‘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,
- לְאָכְלָ֜הleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into food
This 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.’
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃ סleokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into food
Then 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!’
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: for devouring
On 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.
- לְאָכְלָֽה׃leokhlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: for food
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.