אׇכְלָה
okh.lah
food
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word אׇכְלָה (okh.lah) is defined as "food". Its semantic domain is limited to the concepts of "Food & Drink", indicating its primary association with sustenance. The fact that the word occurs 18 times in the Bible suggests that it has a relatively significant presence in the text. Given its definition, it is likely that אׇכְלָה is used in various contexts related to nourishment and consumption, such as preparation, serving, or partaking of food. The range of its usage might also encompass idiomatic expressions or metaphors that employ the concept of food. While limited direct information is available from the provided data, the significance of אׇכְלָה lies in its role as a fundamental aspect of human existence, highlighting the importance of sustenance and nourishment in biblical contexts.
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Occurrences in Scripture
18 total occurrences across the text
Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field. Bring them to devour.
Ezekiel 15:4Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and the middle of it is burned. Is it profitable for any work?
Ezekiel 15:6Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 21:32You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the middle of the land. You will be remembered no more; for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.” ’ ”
Ezekiel 23:37For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.
Ezekiel 29:5I’ll cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You’ll fall on the open field. You won’t be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
Ezekiel 34:5They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
Ezekiel 34:8“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”
Ezekiel 34:10The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.”
Ezekiel 35:12You will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given us to devour.’
Ezekiel 39:4You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
Genesis 1:29God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Genesis 1:30To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.
Genesis 6:21Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
Exodus 16:15When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.
Leviticus 11:39“ ‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 25:6The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.