Strong's Concordance H398

Original Word: אָכַל
Transliteration: ʼâkal
Phonetic Spelling: aw-kal'
a primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively); × at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, × freely, × in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, × quite.

Usages throughout the bible

Jeremiah 8:16 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured H398 the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

Jeremiah 9:15 - Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed H398 them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Jeremiah 10:25 - Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up H398 Jacob, and devoured H398 him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Jeremiah 12:12 - The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour H398 from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

Jeremiah 15:3 - And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour H398 and destroy.

Jeremiah 15:16 - Thy words were found, and I did eat H398 them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

Jeremiah 16:8 - Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat H398 and to drink.

Jeremiah 17:27 - But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour H398 the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 19:9 - And I will cause them to eat H398 the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat H398 every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

Jeremiah 21:14 - But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour H398 all things round about it.

Jeremiah 22:15 - Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat H398 and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

Jeremiah 23:15 - Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed H398 them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

Jeremiah 24:2 - One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, H398 they were so bad.

Jeremiah 24:3 - Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, H398 they are so evil.

Jeremiah 24:8 - And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, H398 they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

Jeremiah 29:5 - Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat H398 the fruit of them;

Jeremiah 29:17 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, H398 they are so evil.

Jeremiah 29:28 - For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat H398 the fruit of them.

Jeremiah 30:16 - Therefore all they that devour H398 thee shall be devoured; H398 and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

Jeremiah 31:29 - In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten H398 a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Jeremiah 31:30 - But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth H398 the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Jeremiah 41:1 - Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat H398 bread together in Mizpah.

Jeremiah 46:10 - For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, H398 and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46:14 - Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour H398 round about thee.

Jeremiah 48:45 - They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour H398 the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

Jeremiah 49:27 - And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume H398 the palaces of Benhadad.

Jeremiah 50:7 - All that found them have devoured H398 them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

Jeremiah 50:17 - Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured H398 him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

Jeremiah 50:32 - And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour H398 all round about him.

Jeremiah 51:34 - Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured H398 me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

Jeremiah 52:33 - And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat H398 bread before him all the days of his life.

Lamentations 2:3 - He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth H398 round about.

Lamentations 2:20 - Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat H398 their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 4:5 - They that did feed H398 delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Lamentations 4:11 - The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured H398 the foundations thereof.

Ezekiel 2:8 - But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat H398 that I give thee.

Ezekiel 3:1 - Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat H398 that thou findest; eat H398 this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 3:2 - So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat H398 that roll.

Ezekiel 3:3 - And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, H398 and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat H398 it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

Ezekiel 4:9 - Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat H398 thereof.

Ezekiel 4:10 - And thy meat which thou shalt eat H398 shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat H398 it.

Ezekiel 4:12 - And thou shalt eat H398 it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

Ezekiel 4:13 - And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat H398 their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

Ezekiel 4:14 - Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten H398 of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

Ezekiel 4:16 - Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat H398 bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

Ezekiel 5:10 - Therefore the fathers shall eat H398 the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat H398 their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

Ezekiel 7:15 - The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour H398 him.

Ezekiel 12:18 - Son of man, eat H398 thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

Ezekiel 12:19 - And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat H398 their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

Ezekiel 15:4 - Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth H398 both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?