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title: אֹכֶל — food · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֹכֶל (400), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 44 times: food. BDB 1906: n.m. food. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֹכֶל

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«אֹכֶל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **food** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 44 times · **Key:** 400 · **BDB:** אֹ֫כֶל

### Glosses

food (31); his.food (4); of.food (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

food [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/400/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. food [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/400/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 41:36 food (Arabic أُكْلٌ, Aramaic אוּכְלָא, ܐܘܽܟܠܴܐ, As. akalu DlW, Eth. እክል )—א׳ abs. Gn 41:35 +; cstr. Gn 41:35, 48; sf. אָכְלֶ֑ךָ Lv 25:37; אָכְלוֹ Mal 1:12. etc.;—Hex mostly JED, not Ez.—food, food-supply, especially cereals of store in Egypt Gn 41:35(×2) + 12 textual Gn 41–44; 47:24 cf. 14:11 (JE); also Lv 11:34; 25:37 (P) Dt 2:6, 28 (D); נֶשֶׁךְ א׳ usury of food Dt 23:20 (D) (‖ נ׳ כֶּסֶף, etc.); לְעֵת הָאֹכֶל at meal-time Ru 2:14; †poet. 17 textual;—food ψ 107:18; of offerings Mal 1:12; partic. food Jb 12:11 (as tasted); 36:31 (as given by God) so ψ 145:15; א׳ לְהָשִׁיב נָ֑פֶשׁ La 1:11 cf. v 19; especially cereals Pr 13:23 Jo 1:16 Hb 3:17; but also flesh ψ 78:18, 30; of food (prey) of wild animals ψ 104:21 (‖ טרף)27; of prey of eagles Jb 9:26; 39:29; ravens 38:41.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 27 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֹכֶל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/400/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 9:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.26/)

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חָ֭לְפוּ עִם־אֳנִיּ֣וֹת אֵבֶ֑ה כְּ֝נֶ֗שֶׁר יָט֥וּשׂ עֲלֵי־אֹֽכֶל׃

*Word for word:* they.have.passed.on with ships of.reed like an.eagle \[which\].it.rushes on food

*JPS 1917:* They are passed away as the swift ships; as the vulture that swoopeth on the prey.

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[Job 36:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.31/)

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כִּי־בָ֭ם יָדִ֣ין עַמִּ֑ים יִֽתֶּן־אֹ֥כֶל לְמַכְבִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) by them he.judges peoples he.gives food to abundance

*JPS 1917:* For by these He judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.

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