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Strong H3978מַאֲכָל

food

Transliteration
ma'ăkâl
Pronunciation
mah-ak-awl'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From H398; an eatable (including {provender} flesh and fruit): - {food} {fruit} ([bake-]) meat ({-s}) victual.

Detailed definition

food, fruit, meat

In the Bible

Strong H3978 appears in 29 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • meat21
  • food5
  • fruit1
  • manner1
  • victual1

First verses

  1. Genesis 2:9
    And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
  2. Genesis 3:6
    And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
  3. Genesis 6:21
    And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
  4. Genesis 40:17
    And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
  5. Leviticus 19:23
    And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
  6. Deuteronomy 20:20
    Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
  7. Deuteronomy 28:26
    And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
  8. Judges 14:14
    And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.
  9. 1 Kings 10:5
    And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.
  10. 1 Chronicles 12:40
    Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
  11. 2 Chronicles 9:4
    And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.
  12. 2 Chronicles 11:11
    And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
  13. Ezra 3:7
    They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
  14. Nehemiah 9:25
    And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
  15. Job 33:20
    So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
  16. Psalms 44:11
    Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
  17. Psalms 74:14
    Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
  18. Psalms 79:2
    The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
  19. Proverbs 6:8
    Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
  20. Isaiah 62:8
    The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
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