Know the Word.

Hebrew word

ʼâkal

aw-kal'

אָכַל

What it means

to eat

to eat (literally or figuratively)

Where it comes from

a primitive root

How the King James translates it

  • eat454
  • eaten70
  • devour52
  • devoured42
  • eateth31
  • consumed18
  • eating13
  • consume9

Every place it appears 740

Joshua5:115:12
1 Chronicles12:3929:22
Esther4:16
Song of Solomon4:165:1
Lamentations2:32:204:54:11
Obadiah1:18
Habakkuk3:14
Zephaniah1:183:8
Haggai1:6
Malachi3:11