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title: אׇכְלָה — food · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אׇכְלָה (402), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 18 times: food. BDB 1906: n.f. food, eating. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אׇכְלָה

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«אׇכְלָה» 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:** 18 times · **Key:** 402 · **BDB:** אָכְלָה

### Glosses

food (14); fuel (3); devouring (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

food [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/402/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. food, eating [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/402/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. food, eating (with some verbal force, cf. DrJPhl. xi.217) only P, \& Ez always לְאָכְלָה, especially in phr. like לָכֶם יִהְיֶה לְאָ׳ Gn 1:29; 6:21; 9:3 Lv 11:39; so 25:6 וְהָיְתָה שַׁבַּת הָאָרֶץ לָכֶם לְאָכְלָה; cf. נָתַן לְא׳ Gn 1:30 Ex 16:15. devouring, by wild beasts, only fig. of ravaged people Ex 29:5 34:5, 8, 10; 39:4, cf. 35:12. consuming, in fire Ez 15:4, 6, of fire-sacrifice of children 23:37; fig. of judgment of י׳ Ez 21:37; (cf. also inf. of אָכַל).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אׇכְלָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/402/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 34:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.5/)

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וַתְּפוּצֶ֖ינָה מִבְּלִ֣י רֹעֶ֑ה וַתִּהְיֶ֧ינָה לְאָכְלָ֛ה לְכָל־חַיַּ֥ת הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה וַתְּפוּצֶֽינָה׃

*Word for word:* and they.have.been.scattered from not a.shepherd and they.have.become (into) food for every (the).animal of the.field and they.have.been.scattered

*JPS 1917:* So were they scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.

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[Genesis 9:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.3/)

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כָּל־רֶ֙מֶשׂ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הוּא־חַ֔י לָכֶ֥ם יִהְיֶ֖ה לְאָכְלָ֑ה כְּיֶ֣רֶק עֵ֔שֶׂב נָתַ֥תִּי לָכֶ֖ם אֶת־כֹּֽל׃

*Word for word:* every creeping.thing which it \[is\].alive for you it.will.become (into) food like.\[the\] greenery of.plant\[s\] I.give to you (et) everything

*JPS 1917:* Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

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