achal · eat, devour

What it means

achal (אֲכַל) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “eat, devour”.

To eat, to devour (Aramaic). "To eat the pieces of someone" is to accuse him.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To swallow voraciously, like a beast tearing its prey.
2. To speak against someone before the king.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• accused ×2
• devour ×2
• he ate ×1
• it devoured ×1
• which devoured ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Daniel 3:8

  Because of this, at that time, certain Chaldean men came forward and accused the Jews.

• Daniel 4:33

  At that very moment the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and from men he was driven away, and grass like oxen he ate, and with the dew of the heavens his body was drenched, until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

• Daniel 6:24

  And the king gave the word, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and into the den of the lions they threw them, their children, and their wives; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

• Daniel 7:5

  And look, another beast, a second, like a bear, and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and they were saying this to it: ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’

• Daniel 7:7

  After this I was looking in the visions of the night, and look, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong; and it had great teeth of iron; it devoured and crushed, and the rest it trampled with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

• Daniel 7:19

  Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrifying, whose teeth were of iron and its claws of bronze, which devoured, crushed, and trampled the rest with its feet;

• Daniel 7:23

  Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and it will devour all the earth and trample it and crush it.