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Leviticus 19:8

“Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

אָכַלʼâkal · aw-kal'
H398 · Hebrew
Definition
to eat (literally or figuratively)
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
[idiom] at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, [idiom] freely, [idiom] in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, [idiom] quite.
Grammar
  • וְ — conjunction
  • אֹֽכְלָי — verb Qal, active participle, masculine, plural, construct
  • ו֙ — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/Vqrmpc/Sp3ms
Usage
Occurs 815 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:16Genesis 2:16Genesis 2:17Genesis 2:17Genesis 3:1

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.