akhal (to devour)

Meaning

To eat, devour(P'al)

How it's translated

devouring 2
and they ate 1
he ate 1
they had eaten 1
devour 1
so it may devour 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 7

1 book in all.

Related words

To devour (katesthiō)

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 4:33In contextThe same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
Daniel 6:24In contextAnd the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
Daniel 7:5In contextAnd behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
Daniel 7:7In contextAfter this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
Daniel 7:19In contextThen I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
Daniel 7:23In contextThus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

Aramaic dictionary

אֲכַל akhal · to devour

1) to eat, devour 1a) (P'al) 1a1) to eat (of beasts) 1a2) to devour 1a3) eat their pieces (in a phrase, that is, slander them)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “devour” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DEVOUR, verb transitive

[Latin, to eat.]

To eat up; to eat with greediness; to eat ravenously, as a beast of prey, or as a hungry man.“We will say, some evil beast hath devoured him” Genesis 37:20“In the morning, he shall devour the prey” Genesis 49:27
To destroy; to consume with rapidity and violence.“I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad” Amos 1:4“Famine and pestilence shall devour him” Ezekiel 7:15
To destroy; to annihilate; to consume.
To waste; to consume; to spend in dissipation and riot.“As soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots” Luke 15:30

All definitions

To consume wealth and substance by fraud, oppression, or illegal exactions.“Ye devour widows houses” Matthew 23:14
To destroy spiritually; to ruin the soul.“Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” 1 Peter 5:8
To slay.
To enjoy with avidity.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.