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Lexicon :: Strong's G2719 - katesthiō

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κατεσθίω
Transliteration
katesthiō (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-es-thee'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From κατά (G2596) and ἐσθίω (G2068) (including its alternate)
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Strong’s Definitions

κατεσθίω katesthíō, kat-es-thee'-o; from G2596 and G2068 (including its alternate); to eat down, i.e. devour (literally or figuratively):—devour.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G2719 in the following manner: devour (10x), eat up (3x), devour up (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G2719 in the following manner: devour (10x), eat up (3x), devour up (2x).

  1. to consume by eating, to eat up, devour

    1. of birds

    2. of a dragon

    3. of a man eating up the little book

  2. metaph.

    1. to devour i.e. squander, waste: substance

    2. to devour i.e. forcibly appropriate: widows' property

    3. to strip one of his goods

      1. to ruin (by the infliction of injuries)

    4. by fire, to devour i.e. to utterly consume, destroy

    5. of the consumption of the strength of body and mind by strong emotions

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κατεσθίω katesthíō, kat-es-thee'-o; from G2596 and G2068 (including its alternate); to eat down, i.e. devour (literally or figuratively):—devour.
STRONGS G2719:
κατεσθίω, participle plural κατεσθοντες (Mark 12:40 Tr WH; see ἐσθίω and ἔσθω; cf. Fritzsche, Hdbch. z. d. Apokryphen, i., p. 150 (who says, 'The shorter form occurs frequently in the Sept., Leviticus 19:26; Sir. 20:15 (16), elsewhere almost exclusively poetic; see Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Sprachl. ii., p. 185' (cf. Veitch, under the word, ἐσθίω))); future καταφάγομαι (John 2:17 G L T Tr WH; see ἐσθίω); 2 aorist κατέφαγον; the Sept. for אָכַל;
1. properly, to consume by eating, to eat up, devour: τί, of birds, Matthew 13:4; Mark 4:4; Luke 8:5; of a dragon, Revelation 12:4; of a man, eating up the little book, i. e. eagerly taking its entire contents into his inmost soul, and, as we say, digesting it (borrowed from the figure in Ezekiel 2:10; Ezekiel 3:1-3, cf. Jeremiah 15:16): Revelation 10:9f.
2. Metaphorically, in various uses;
a. to devour i. e. squander, waste, substance: Luke 15:30 (often so in Greek writings from Homer, Odyssey 3, 315; 15, 12 down; devorare patrimonium, Catull. 29, 23).
b. to devour i. e. forcibly appropriate: τάς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν, widows' property, Matthew 23:14-13Rec.; Mark 12:40 (cf. Buttmann, 79 (69); Winer's Grammar, § 29, 2); Luke 20:47.
c. with an accusative of the person
α. to strip one of his goods: 2 Corinthians 11:20.
β. to ruin (by the infliction of injuries): Galatians 5:15.
d. of fire, to devour i. e. utterly consume, destroy: τινα, Revelation 11:5; Revelation 20:9.
e. of the consumption of the strength of body and mind by strong emotions: τινα, John 2:17 (Psalm 68:10 (Ps. 69:10); Josephus, Antiquities 7, 8, 1).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
19:26
Psalms
68:10; 69:10
Jeremiah
15:16
Ezekiel
2:10; 3:1; 3:2; 3:3
Matthew
13:4
Mark
4:4; 12:40; 12:40
Luke
8:5; 15:30; 20:47
John
2:17; 2:17
2 Corinthians
11:20
Galatians
5:15
Revelation
10:9; 11:5; 12:4; 20:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2719 matches the Greek κατεσθίω (katesthiō),
which occurs 138 times in 124 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 2 / 3 (Psa 21:9–Hos 13:8)

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:9 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:9 - For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:45

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:45 - He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:63

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63 - The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7 - For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:35 - And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:14 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:17 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:20 - But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:12 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:18 - And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:6 - Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:30 - And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:11 - Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:9 - Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 61:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:6 - But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 - In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:14 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 - And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:16 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:12 - The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:27 - But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 - For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:14 - Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:27 - And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:32 - And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 - Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:3 - He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 - The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:1 - Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:7 - And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:14 - And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:47 - And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:25 - There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:25 - And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:18 - Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:3 - Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:8 - But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:13 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:23 - Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:12 - And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:7 - They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:7 - They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:9 - Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7 - For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:14 - For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:8 - I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

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