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Strong's H402 אׇכְלָה (oklah)

Oklah means “food” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G402 — anachoreo (“retire”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H402
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 18
Books 5

Strong's H402 Quick Answer

Strong's H402 אוֹכלָה (oklah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. oklah (ok-law') n-f. 1. food [feminine of H401] It has 18 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include meat, eat, devour, food, and devoureth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
oklah (ok-law') n-f. 1. food [feminine of H401]
Usage
18 linked usages
Books
5 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
meat, eat, devour, food, and devoureth

Meaning and Definition

oklah (ok-law') n-f. 1. food [feminine of H401] KJV: consume, devour, eat, food, meat. Root(s): H401

Original Word
אוֹכלָה
Transliteration
oklah
Derivation
First root strongs: 401
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H402. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

food

Usage: 1) food 1a) food, eating 1b) object of devouring, consuming 1b1) by wild beasts (figurative) 1b2) in fire 1b3) of judgment (figurative)

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How Strong's H402 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render oklah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

meat Leviticus 25:6 devour Jeremiah 12:9 eat Exodus 16:15 consume Ezekiel 35:12 devoured Ezekiel 39:4 devoureth Ezekiel 15:4 food Genesis 6:21

How Strong's H402 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 18 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H402 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H402 in the Old Testament

18 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 1:29 KJV

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.

Genesis 1:30 KJV

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: and it was so.

Genesis 6:21 KJV

And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

Usage Excerpts

First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H402.

Genesis 1:29 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Genesis 1:30 Old Testament, KJV
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: and it was so.
Genesis 6:21 Old Testament, KJV
And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Genesis 9:3 Old Testament, KJV
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Exodus 16:15 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Leviticus 11:39 Old Testament, KJV
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 25:6 Old Testament, KJV
And the sabbath of the land shall be meat 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 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 15:4 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
Ezekiel 15:6 Old Testament, KJV
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, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 21:32 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt be for fuel 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 Old Testament, KJV
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 them.
Ezekiel 29:5 Old Testament, KJV
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 to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
Ezekiel 34:5 Old Testament, KJV
And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
Ezekiel 34:8 Old Testament, KJV
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat 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 Old Testament, KJV
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 for them.
Ezekiel 35:12 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 39:4 Old Testament, KJV
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.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H402, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 10 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H402 FAQ

What does oklah (אׇכְלָה) mean?

Oklah (Strong's H402) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "food". oklah (ok-law') n-f. 1. food [feminine of H401]

How many times is oklah (אׇכְלָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H402 across 5 books.

Where can I study oklah (אׇכְלָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H402 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate oklah (אׇכְלָה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as meat, eat, devour, food, devoureth, and consume. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.