H3978 - מַאֲכָל (maʼăkâl)

H3978 מַאֲכָל (maʼăkâl) mah-ak-awl'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

food

Strong's Definition

an eatable (includ. provender, flesh and fruit)

Derivation: from H398 (אָכַל);

KJV Usage: food, fruit, (bake-)meat(-s), victual.

TWOT Reference: 85d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) food, fruit, meat

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1034

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

food, fruit, meat

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מַאֲכָל maăkâl BDB Definition: 1) food, fruit, meat Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H398 Same Word by TWOT Number: 85d Total KJV Occurrences: 30

Bible Occurrences (29)

2:9 3:6 6:21 40:17

19:23

20:20 28:26

14:14

10:5

12:40

9:4 11:11

3:7

9:25

33:20

44:11 74:14 79:2

6:8

62:8

7:33 16:4 19:7 34:20

4:10 47:12

1:10

1:16

2:12

Genesis 2:9

Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden [were] the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food and pleasing to the eyes, [and that it was] desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave [some]... to her husband [who was] with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 6:21

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].

Genesis 40:17

In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh,... but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.

Leviticus 19:23

When you enter... the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.

Deuteronomy 20:20

But you may destroy the trees that you know... do not... produce fruit... -. [Use them] to build siege works against the city that... is waging war against you, until it falls.

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

Judges 14:14

So he said to them: Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet. For three days they were unable... to explain the riddle.