אֹכֶל ʼôkel — food
Translated in the KJV as eating, food, meal, meat, prey, victuals.
from H398; food.
ʼôkel in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
לְאָכְל֑וֹ Job 20:21 Infinitive construct
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
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 ›