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

Hosea 9:3 - They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat H398 unclean things in Assyria.

Hosea 9:4 - They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat H398 thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

Hosea 10:13 - Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten H398 the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

Hosea 11:4 - I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat H398 unto them.

Hosea 11:6 - And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour H398 them, because of their own counsels.

Hosea 13:8 - I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour H398 them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

Joel 1:4 - That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; H398 and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; H398 and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. H398

Joel 1:19 - O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured H398 the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

Joel 1:20 - The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured H398 the pastures of the wilderness.

Joel 2:3 - A fire devoureth H398 before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

Joel 2:5 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth H398 the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

Joel 2:25 - And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, H398 the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Joel 2:26 - And ye shall eat H398 in plenty, H398 and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

Amos 1:4 - But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour H398 the palaces of Benhadad.

Amos 1:7 - But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour H398 the palaces thereof:

Amos 1:10 - But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour H398 the palaces thereof.

Amos 1:12 - But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour H398 the palaces of Bozrah.

Amos 1:14 - But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour H398 the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

Amos 2:2 - But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour H398 the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

Amos 2:5 - But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour H398 the palaces of Jerusalem.

Amos 4:9 - I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured H398 them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Amos 5:6 - Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour H398 it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

Amos 6:4 - That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat H398 the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

Amos 7:2 - And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating H398 the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

Amos 7:4 - Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured H398 the great deep, and did eat up H398 a part.

Amos 7:12 - Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat H398 bread, and prophesy there:

Amos 9:14 - And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat H398 the fruit of them.

Obadiah 1:18 - And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour H398 them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.

Micah 3:3 - Who also eat H398 the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Micah 6:14 - Thou shalt eat, H398 but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

Micah 7:1 - Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: H398 my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

Nahum 1:10 - For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured H398 as stubble fully dry.

Nahum 2:13 - Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour H398 thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

Nahum 3:12 - All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. H398

Nahum 3:13 - Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour H398 thy bars.

Nahum 3:15 - There shall the fire devour H398 thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up H398 like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

Habakkuk 1:8 - Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. H398

Habakkuk 3:14 - Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour H398 the poor secretly.

Zephaniah 1:18 - Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured H398 by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Zephaniah 3:8 - Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured H398 with the fire of my jealousy.

Haggai 1:6 - Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, H398 but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

Zechariah 7:6 - And when ye did eat, H398 and when ye did drink, did not ye eat H398 for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Zechariah 9:4 - Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured H398 with fire.

Zechariah 9:15 - The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, H398 and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.

Zechariah 11:1 - Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour H398 thy cedars.

Zechariah 11:9 - Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat H398 every one the flesh of another.

Zechariah 11:16 - For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat H398 the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.

Zechariah 12:6 - In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour H398 all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

Malachi 3:11 - And I will rebuke the devourer H398 for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.