Lexical Summary oklah: food, eating Original Word: אָכְלָהTransliteration: oklah Phonetic Spelling: (ok-law') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: food, eating Meaning: food, eating Strong's Concordance consume, devour, eat, food, meat Feminine of 'Ukal; food -- consume, devour, eat, food, meat. see HEBREW 'Ukal Brown-Driver-Briggs H402. oklah אָכְלָה17 noun feminine food, eating (with some verbal force, compare DrJPh xi. 217) only P, & Ezekiel; always לְאָכְלָה, 1 especially in phrase like לְאָ יִהְיֶה ׳לָכֶם Genesis 1:29; 6:21; 9:3; Leviticus 11:39; so 25:6 לְאָבְלָה לָכֶם הָאָרֶץ שַׁבַּת וְהָיְתָה compare לְא ׳נָתַן Genesis 1:30; Exodus 16:15. 2 devouring, by wild beasts, only figurative of ravaged people Ezekiel 29:5; 34:5, 8, 10; 39:4, compare 35:12. 3 consumimg, in fire Ezekiel 15:4, 6, of fire-sacrifice of children 23:37; figurative of judgment of ׳י Ezekiel 21:37; (compare also infinitive of אָכַל). |
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