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title: אֲכִילָה — an eating · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲכִילָה (396), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: an eating. BDB 1906: n.f. an eating, meal. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲכִילָה

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«אֲכִילָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **an eating** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 396 · **BDB:** אֲכִילָה

### Glosses

the.food (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

an eating [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/396/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. an eating, meal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/396/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. an eating, a meal 1 K 19:8 (on form v. BaNB 136).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲכִילָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/396/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 19:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.19.8/)

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וַיָּ֖קָם וַיֹּ֣אכַל וַיִּשְׁתֶּ֑ה וַיֵּ֜לֶךְ בְּכֹ֣חַ ׀ הָאֲכִילָ֣ה הַהִ֗יא אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יוֹם֙ וְאַרְבָּעִ֣ים לַ֔יְלָה עַ֛ד הַ֥ר הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים חֹרֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* and he.arose and he.ate and he.drank and he.went in the.strength of the.food (the) that forty day\[s\] and forty night\[s\] to the.mountain of.(the) God Horeb

*JPS 1917:* And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meal forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

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