# H398 אָכַל

אָכַל (ʼâkal), Strong’s H398: to eat (literally or figuratively) KJV: [idiom] at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with)…. Occurs 811 times.

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*ʼâkal* — to eat (literally or figuratively)

KJV: [idiom] at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with)…

Occurs 811 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אָכַל 806 vb. eat
- Qal
- 1 eat, human subject
- 2 of beasts, birds, etc., eat, devour
- 3 fig. of fire, devour, consume
- 4 of sword, devour, slay
- 5 in genl., devour, consume, destroy
- 6 fig. of oppression, devour the poor
- Niph.
- 1 be eaten by man
- 2 be devoured by fire, consumed
- 3 be wasted, destroyed, of flesh
- Pu. be consumed
- Hiph.
- 1 cause to eat, feed with
- 2 cause to devoure, obj. sword

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=16) — The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
- [Genesis 2:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=17) — but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely…
- [Genesis 3:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=1) — Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has…
- [Genesis 3:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=2) — The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
- [Genesis 3:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=3) — but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall…
- [Genesis 3:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=5) — for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
- [Genesis 3:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=6) — When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be…
- [Genesis 3:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=11) — God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
- [Genesis 3:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=12) — The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
- [Genesis 3:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=13) — The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”