Food
אֹ֫כֶלStrong’s H0400okhel (o-khel)
Appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Okhel is the Hebrew word usually translated “food”, “food their” and “food his”. It appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.”
Meaning
- Foodcereal · meat
- Food supply
- Meal, dinner
How it's translated
- food 24
- food their 5
- food his 4
- food of 3
- the food 2
- and to food your 1
- food your 1
- the meal 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 13
- Psalms 6
- Job 5
- Exodus 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Leviticus 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 41:35And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
- Genesis 41:36And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
- Genesis 41:48And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
- Genesis 42:7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
- Genesis 42:10And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
- Genesis 43:2And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
All 40 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אֹ֫כֶל okhel · food
1) food 1a) cereal 1b) meat 2) food supply 3) meal, dinner
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “food” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOOD, noun
[See Feed.]
- In a general sense, whatever is eaten by animals for nourishment, and whatever supplies nutriment to plants.
- Meat; aliment; flesh or vegetables eaten for sustaining human life; victuals; provisions; whatever is or may be eaten for nourishment.“Feed me with food convenient for me” Proverbs 30:8
- Whatever supplies nourishment and growth to plants, as water, carbonic acid gas, etc.
- Something that sustains, nourishes and augments.
All definitions and other forms of “food”
FOOD, verb transitive
To feed. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.