אֹכֶל
ʼôkel · o'-kel
food
Lexicon
Derivation: from H398 (אָכַל);
food
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: eating, food, meal(-time), meat, prey, victuals.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › the open hand that covers › authority, the one who leads
Strength, the leader of the open hand that covers of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אֹכֶל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
43 occurrences · 43 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- food8 · 20%
- to his eating4 · 10%
- meat3 · 7%
- all the food2 · 5%
- the food2 · 5%
- their meat2 · 5%
- them their meat2 · 5%
- and all their victuals1 · 2%
- and that food1 · 2%
- thee food1 · 2%
- with food1 · 2%
- and for your food1 · 2%
- of all meat1 · 2%
- him thy victuals1 · 2%
- me meat1 · 2%
- of victuals1 · 2%
- unto her, at mealtime1 · 2%
- to the prey1 · 2%
- his meat1 · 2%
- there shall none of his meat1 · 2%
- of meat1 · 2%
- the prey1 · 2%
- but while their meat1 · 2%
- all manner of meat1 · 2%
- for meat1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.