אָכַל ʼâkal — to eat (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as × at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, feed, food, × freely, × in...wise(-deed, plenty).
a primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively).
ʼâkal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 281Perfect (qatal) 90Sequential perfect (weqatal) 85Wayyiqtol 83Infinitive construct 74Participle (active) 64Imperative 31Infinitive absolute 17Jussive 10Cohortative 7
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 40Infinitive absolute 2Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (passive) 1Wayyiqtol 1
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.
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Wayyiqtol 4Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 3Imperative 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Infinitive construct 1
And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
Qal passive
Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (passive) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 2
And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›