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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 1 / 3 (Gen 31:15–Psa 14:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - “Are we not reckoned by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also [fn]entirely consumed [fn]our purchase price.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38 - “These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:20 - “Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, ‘A wild beast devoured him.’ Then let us see what will become of his dreams!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:33 - Then he [fn]examined it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild beast has devoured him; Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - and in the top basket there were some of all [fn]sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:4 - The ugly and [fn]gaunt cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20 - and the lean and [fn]ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2 - So it came about when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:5 - ‘They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped—what is left to you from the hail—and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, even all that the hail has left.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:15 - For they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Thus nothing green was left on tree or plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:7 - “And in the greatness of Your [fn]excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You;
You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:24 - Then fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:2 - And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - ‘I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38 - ‘But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:1 - Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the LORD; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - “Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother’s womb!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:32 - So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its [fn]inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:35 - Fire also came forth from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28 - “For a fire went forth from Heshbon,
A flame from the town of Sihon;
It devoured Ar of Moab,
The [fn]dominant [fn]heights of the Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:10 - and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up along with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, so that they became a [fn]warning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - “You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:39 - “You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - “Moreover, it shall eat the [fn]offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:55

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55 - so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [fn]oppress you in all your [fn]towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:57

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:57 - and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her [fn]legs and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [fn]oppress you in your [fn]towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22 - For a fire is kindled in My anger,
And burns to the lowest part of [fn]Sheol,
And consumes the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:42 - ‘I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
And My sword will devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the long-haired [fn]leaders of the enemy.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 - Then the angel of the LORD put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD [fn]vanished from his sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - “The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in [fn]truth you are anointing me as king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, may fire come out from the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20 - “But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and consume the men of Shechem and [fn]Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from [fn]Beth-millo, and consume Abimelech.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Then Abner called to Joab and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter in the end? How long will you [fn]refrain from telling the people to turn back from following their brothers?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - For the battle there was spread over the whole countryside, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:9 - “Smoke went up [fn]out of His nostrils,
Fire from His mouth devoured;
Coals were kindled by it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:4 - “Anyone of Baasha who dies in the city the dogs will eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23 - “Of Jezebel also has the LORD spoken, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the [fn]district of Jezreel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - Elijah replied to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - Elijah replied to them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14 - “Behold fire came down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my [fn]life be precious in your sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10 - ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - Therefore they returned and told him. And he said, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the [fn]property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:1 - Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - “If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:16 - While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:13 - “[fn]His skin is devoured by disease,
The firstborn of death devours his [fn]limbs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures,
And unfanned fire will devour him;
It will consume the survivor in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:20 - Saying, ‘Truly our adversaries are cut off,
And their [fn]abundance the fire has consumed.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:4 - Do all the workers of wickedness not know,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the LORD?

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