Strong’s H398 · Hebrew

אָכַל
ʼâkal
aw-kal'

Definition

to eat (literally or figuratively)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • at all
  • burn up
  • consume
  • devour(-er
  • up)
  • dine
  • eat(-er
  • feed (with)
  • food
  • freely
  • in...wise(-deed
  • plenty)
  • (lay) meat
  • quite

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.