Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
Read in context →And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
Read in context →2 occurrences in 2 verses.
Browse those occurrences →This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
ʼâkal · aw-kal'
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.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 11:25Strong's last: Joel 2:5
Open full H398 profile →bâlaʻ · baw-lah'
to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy
Strong's KJV usage: cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).
Strong's first: Proverbs 19:28Strong's last: Habakkuk 1:13
Open full H1104 profile →katesthíō · kat-es-thee'-o
to eat down, i.e. devour (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--devour.
Strong's first: Revelation 11:5Strong's last: Revelation 11:5
Open full G2719 profile →yâlaʻ · yaw-lah'
to blurt or utter inconsiderately
Strong's KJV usage: devour.
Strong's first: Proverbs 20:25Strong's last: Proverbs 20:25
Open full H3216 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
2 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
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.
Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.
