maachal · food

What it means

maachal (מַאֲכָל) 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. Everything that is eaten, especially stored or prepared food.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• food ×28
• fruit ×1
• something to eat ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Haggai×1

• Genesis 2:9

  And YHWH Elohim made every tree sprout from the ground that is pleasing to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

• Genesis 3:6

  And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable for gaining insight; and she took of its fruit and ate, and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

• 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 40:17

  In the top basket there was every kind of food for Pharaoh, the work of a baker, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

• Leviticus 19:23

  And when you come into the land and plant any tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as uncircumcised; three years it shall be uncircumcised to you; it shall not be eaten.

• Deuteronomy 20:20

  Only a tree that you know that it is not a tree for food, it you may destroy and cut down, and build siegeworks against the city that is making war with you, until it falls.

• Deuteronomy 28:26

  And your carcass will be food for all the birds of the heavens and for the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

• Judges 14:14

  And he said to them, “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet.” And they could not explain the riddle for three days.

• 1 Kings 10:5

  and the food of his table, and the seating of his servants, and the station of his attendants and their clothing, and his cupbearers, and his burnt offering that he offered at the house of YHWH; and there was no more spirit in her.

• 1 Chronicles 12:40

  And also those near to them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing bread on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on cattle: food of flour, cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, and wine and oil, and cattle and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 9:4

  the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the station of his attendants and their clothing, his cupbearers and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of YHWH; and there was no more spirit in her.

• 2 Chronicles 11:11

  He strengthened the fortresses and put in them leaders, and stores of food, oil, and wine.

• Ezra 3:7

  And they gave money to the stonecutters and to the craftsmen, and food and drink and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the permission of Cyrus king of Persia for them.

• Nehemiah 9:25

  And they captured fortified cities and fertile ground, and they possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug, vineyards and olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance; and they ate and were satisfied and grew fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

• Job 33:20

  so that his life loathes bread, and his soul desirable food.

• Psalms 44:11

  You give us up like sheep for food, and among the nations you have scattered us.

• Psalms 74:14

  You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food to the people of the desert dwellers.

• Psalms 79:2

  They have given the corpses of your servants as food to the birds of the sky, the flesh of your faithful ones to the animals of the earth.

• Proverbs 6:8

  prepares in the summer her bread; she gathers at the harvest her food.

• Isaiah 62:8

  YHWH has sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength: “I will certainly not give your grain again as food to your enemies, and foreigners will certainly not drink your new wine for which you wore yourself out;

• Jeremiah 7:33

  And the corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth, with no one to frighten them away.

• Jeremiah 16:4

  Of deaths from diseases they will die; they will not be mourned or buried; as dung on the face of the ground they will be; and by the sword and by famine they will be finished off; and their corpses will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the animals of the earth.

• Jeremiah 19:7

  And I will empty the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give their corpses as food for the birds of the heavens and for the animals of the earth.

• Jeremiah 34:20

  and I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their corpses will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.

• Ezekiel 4:10

  And your food that you eat will be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you will eat it.

• Ezekiel 47:12

  And by the torrent will grow up, on its bank, on one side and on the other, every tree for food; its leaf will not wither, nor will its fruit fail; every month it will bear new fruit, for its water goes out from the sanctuary; and its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for medicine.”

• Daniel 1:10

  And the chief of the officials said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces more downcast than the youths who are your age? Then you would make my head guilty to the king.”

• Habakkuk 1:16

  Therefore he sacrifices to his net and offers up in smoke to his dragnet, for by them his portion is rich and his food fat.

• Haggai 2:12

  If someone carries holy meat in the edge of his garment and touches with its edge the bread or the stew or the wine or oil or any food, will it become holy?” And the priests answered and said, “No.”

And 1 more times.