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Genesis 3:12

And the Red-one is saying, `The Woman whom you have given her close-with-me127 Himself she has given to-myself from out of the Wood, and he has eaten.`126b

Footnote:

126b

אכל Eat

Strong's #398 to eat in the complete form. Without the lamed ל preposition, we don't take it for an infinitive. The difference between okel and akal is a matter of pronunciation. Which one is it here? The dialogue of Adam uses two verbs in the complete/perfect, so the complete "he ate" maintains the consistency here as well as with the previous question posed in the perfect "have you eaten?" rather than "are you eating?" The expected answer would be "I have eaten" אכלתי but that is not the case.

אכל okel I am eating (incomplete/imperfect, more properly with a vav אוכל but this creates an identical form with "I am able")

אכל akal He ate (complete/perfect)

אכלה akalah She ate (complete/perfect)