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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12 occurrences in 12 verses.
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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
Mark
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
Galatians
11 verses
Hebrews
11 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
Revelation
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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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
But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
H398
But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
H398
But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
H398
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
H398
Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
H398
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
H398
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
H398
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
H398
There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
H398
Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
H398
The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
H398
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
H398
In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
G2719
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
G2719
Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
G2719
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
G2719
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
G2719
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
G2068
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
G2666
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
G2719
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.
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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