Genesis 49:27
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
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Devour
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Revelation 12:4
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
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Genesis
11 verses
Deuteronomy
11 verses
Judges
32 verses
2 Samuel
11 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
21 verses
Psalms
33 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
Isaiah
99 verses
Jeremiah
1212 verses
Ezekiel
77 verses
Daniel
22 verses
Hosea
44 verses
Amos
88 verses
Obadiah
11 verses
Nahum
33 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
Zechariah
33 verses
Matthew
11 verses
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11 verses
Luke
11 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
Galatians
11 verses
Hebrews
11 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
Revelation
11 verses
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אָכַל
ʼâkal · aw-kal'
57 times translated as this KJV form809 total Strong's occurrences
to eat (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, × freely, × in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, × quite.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 49:27Strong's last: Zechariah 12:6
Open full H398 profile →κατεσθίω
katesthíō · kat-es-thee'-o
6 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
to eat down, i.e. devour (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--devour.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 23:14Strong's last: Revelation 12:4
Open full G2719 profile →אֲכַל
ʼăkal · ak-al'
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: accuse, devour, eat.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 7:5Strong's last: Daniel 7:23
Open full H399 profile →אׇכְלָה
ʼoklâh · ok-law'
2 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
food
Strong's KJV usage: consume, devour, eat, food, meat.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 12:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 23:37
Open full H402 profile →ἐσθίω
esthíō · es-thee'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form68 total Strong's occurrences
used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by G5315; to eat (usually literal)
Strong's KJV usage: :--devour, eat, live.
Strong's first: Hebrews 10:27Strong's last: Hebrews 10:27
Open full G2068 profile →καταπίνω
katapínō · kat-ap-ee'-no
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to drink down, i.e. gulp entire (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--devour, drown, swallow (up).
Strong's first: 1 Peter 5:8Strong's last: 1 Peter 5:8
Open full G2666 profile →רָעָה
râʻâh · raw-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
Strong's KJV usage: × break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 80:13Strong's last: Psalms 80:13
Open full H7462 profile →שָׁאַף
shâʼaph · shaw-af'
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
to inhale eagerly; figuratively, to cover; by implication, to be angry; also to hasten
Strong's KJV usage: desire (earnestly), devour, haste, pant, snuff up, swallow up.
Strong's first: Isaiah 42:14Strong's last: Isaiah 42:14
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H398
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
H398
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
H398
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
H398
But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
H398
But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
H398
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
H398
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
H398
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
H398
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
H398
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
H398
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
H7462
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
H398
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
H398
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
H398
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
H398
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
H398
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
H398
LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
H398
Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
H398
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
H7602
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
H398
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
H398
Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
H398
Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
H402
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.
English meaning and historical usage.
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devour
DEVOUR, verb transitive [Latin , to eat.]
1. To eat up; to eat with greediness; to eat ravenously, as a beast of prey, or as a hungry man.
We will say, some evil beast hath devoured him. Genesis 37:20.
In the morning, he shall devour the prey. Genesis 49:27.
2. To destroy; to consume with rapidity and violence.
I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad. Amos 1:4.
Famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezekiel 7:15.
3. To destroy; to annihilate; to consume.
He seemed in swiftness to devour the way.
4. To waste; to consume; to spend in dissipation and riot.
As soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots. Luke 15:30.
5. To consume wealth and substance by fraud, oppression, or illegal exactions.
Ye devour widows houses. Matthew 23:14.
6. To destroy spiritually; to ruin the soul.
Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour 1 Peter 5:8.
7. To slay.
The sword shall devour the young lions. Nahum 2.
8. To enjoy with avidity.
Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, devour her oer and oer with vast delight.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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