chla · food

What it means

chla (אׇכְלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “food”.

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. What nourishes: the bread from heaven and the sustenance God gives to every creature.
2. What fire or wild beasts eat up.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• food ×14
• fuel ×2
• devour ×1
• eat ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×10

• Genesis 1:29

  And Elohim said, “Look, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree that has fruit yielding seed; it will be food for you.

• Genesis 1:30

  And to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that creeps on the earth, that has life, I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

• Genesis 6:21

  And you, take for yourself of every food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for you and for them for food.”

• Genesis 9:3

  Every creeping thing that is alive will be food for you; as the green plants, I give you everything.

• Exodus 16:15

  When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” for they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that YHWH has given you to eat.

• Leviticus 11:39

  And if one of the beasts that you may have for food dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 25:6

  And the Sabbath of the land shall be for you for food: for you and for your male slave and for your female slave and for your hired worker and for your temporary resident, those who reside with you,

• Jeremiah 12:9

  Is my inheritance to me a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey all around against her? Go, gather all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.

• Ezekiel 15:4

  Look, it is given to the fire for fuel; its two ends the fire consumes, and its middle is charred. Is it useful for any work?

• Ezekiel 15:6

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: “Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I have given the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• Ezekiel 21:32

  For the fire you will be food; your blood will be in the midst of the land; you will not be remembered, for I, YHWH, have spoken.’”

• Ezekiel 23:37

  For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; and with their idols they have committed adultery; and even their sons whom they had borne to me they have made them pass to them as food.

• Ezekiel 29:5

  And I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your channels; on the face of the field you will fall; you will not be gathered nor be collected; to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I have given you as food.

• Ezekiel 34:5

  And they were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for every animal of the field, and they were scattered.

• Ezekiel 34:8

  As I live, declares Adonai YHWH, surely, because my sheep have become booty and my sheep have become food for every animal of the field for lack of a shepherd, and my shepherds have not sought my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and my sheep they have not fed,

• Ezekiel 34:10

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep from their hand, and I will make them cease from feeding the flock, and the shepherds will no longer feed themselves; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, and they will not be food for them.

• Ezekiel 35:12

  And you will know that I, YHWH, have heard all your contemptuous words that you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate; to us they have been given as food.”

• Ezekiel 39:4

  On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops, and the peoples that are with you; to the bird of prey, the bird of every wing, and to the animals of the field I have given you as food.