Occurrences
ʼoklâh occurs 18 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (4), Exodus (1), Leviticus (2), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (10)
- Genesis 1:29 — And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat (לְאָכְלָֽה).
- Genesis 1:30 — And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat (לְאָכְלָ֑ה): and it was so.
- Genesis 6:21 — And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food (לְאָכְלָֽה) for thee, and for them.
- Genesis 9:3 — Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat (לְאָכְלָ֑ה) for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
- Exodus 16:15 — And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat (לְאָכְלָֽה).
- Leviticus 11:39 — And if any beast, of which ye may eat (לְאָכְלָ֑ה), die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 25:6 — And the sabbath of the land shall be meat (לְאָכְלָ֔ה) for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
- Jeremiah 12:9 — Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour (לְאָכְלָֽה).
- Ezekiel 15:4 — Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel (לְאָכְלָ֑ה); the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
- Ezekiel 15:6 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel (לְאָכְלָ֑ה), so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 21:32 — Thou shalt be for fuel (לְאָכְלָ֔ה) to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
- Ezekiel 23:37 — That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour (לְאָכְלָֽה) them.
- Ezekiel 29:5 — And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat (לְאָכְלָֽה) to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
- Ezekiel 34:5 — And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat (לְאָכְלָ֛ה) to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
- Ezekiel 34:8 — As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat (לְאָכְלָ֜ה) to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
- Ezekiel 34:10 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat (לְאָכְלָֽה) for them.
- Ezekiel 35:12 — And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume (לְאָכְלָֽה).
- Ezekiel 39:4 — Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured (לְאָכְלָֽה).