A man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation) · the mouth (as the means of blowing ), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech ); specifically edge , portion or side ; adverbially (with preposition) according to · to eat (literally or figuratively)
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אִישׁ · פֶּה · אָכַל is a Hebrew phrase meaning "a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)".
Full entry for אִישׁ לְפִי אָכְלוֹ (H376, H6310, H398) · Open the biblical lexicon
אִישׁ · פֶּה · אָכַל is a Hebrew phrase meaning "a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)".
H376, H6310, H398 is connected to 3,500 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Hebrew phrase. a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
אִישׁ לְפִי אָכְלוֹ is built from this root: