Food
אׇכְלָהStrong’s H0402okhlah (okh-lah)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Okhlah is the Hebrew word usually translated “food”, “fuel” and “devouring”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
Meaning
- Foodfood, eating · object of devouring, consuming
How it's translated
- to food 6
- food 5
- for food 3
- for fuel 2
- fuel 1
- for devouring 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 10
- Genesis 4
- Leviticus 2
- Exodus 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
- Genesis 6:21And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
- Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
- Exodus 16:15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
- Leviticus 11:39And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 25:6And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
Hebrew dictionary
אׇכְלָה okhlah · food
1) food 1a) food, eating 1b) object of devouring, consuming 1b1) by wild beasts (figurative) 1b2) in fire 1b3) of judgment (figurative)
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.