Strong's Definition
feminine of 401; food
KJV Usage: consume, devour, eat, food, meat
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אׇכְלָה (okh.lah) — food. 1) food 1a) food, eating 1b) object of devouring, consuming 1b1) by wild beasts (figurative) 1b2) in fire 1b3) of judgment (figurative)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f · אכל
Food
food = any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink ► in order to maintain life and growth
GEN 1:29 · GEN 1:30 · GEN 6:21 · GEN 9:3 · EXO 16:15 · LEV 11:39 · LEV 25:6 · JER 12:9 · EZK 23:37 · EZK 29:5 · EZK 34:5 · EZK 34:8 · EZK 34:10 · EZK 39:4
Impact
fuel = things that are burnt up by fire ◄ as if it were eaten by it
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
אָכְלָה 17 n.f. food, eating esp. in phr.
devouring, by wild beasts, only fig. of ravaged people
consuming, in fire
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