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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).
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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 - Hasn't he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38 - "I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:20 - Come now, let's kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we'll see how his dreams turn out!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:33 - He recognized it and exclaimed, "It is my son's tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - In the top basket there were baked goods of every kind for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them from the basket that was on my head."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:4 - The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20 - The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2 - When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Return, buy us a little more food."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:5 - They will cover the surface of the earth, so that you will be unable to see the ground. They will eat the remainder of what escaped - what is left over for you - from the hail, and they will eat every tree that grows for you from the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - The LORD said to Moses, "Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:15 - They covered the surface of all the ground, so that the ground became dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:7 - In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:24 - Then fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat parts on the altar, and all the people saw it, so they shouted loudly and fell down with their faces to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:2 - So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38 - You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:1 - When the people complained, it displeased the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother's womb!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:32 - Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying, "The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:35 - Then a fire went out from the LORD and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28 - For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has consumed Ar of Moab and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:10 - The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - "You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:39 - You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55 - He will withhold from all of them his children's flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:57

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:57 - and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children (since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22 - For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:42 - I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh - the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy's leaders!'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 - The LORD's messenger touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of his staff. Fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened bread. The LORD's messenger then disappeared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - The thornbush said to the trees, 'If you really want to choose me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! Otherwise may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20 - But if not, may fire blaze from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo! May fire also blaze from the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo and consume Abimelech!"

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Then Abner called out to Joab, "Must the sword devour forever? Don't you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?"

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:9 - Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:4 - Dogs will eat the members of Baasha's family who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Then fire from the LORD fell from the sky. It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23 - The LORD says this about Jezebel, 'Dogs will devour Jezebel by the outer wall of Jezreel.'

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - Elijah replied to the captain, "If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!" Fire then came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - Elijah replied to them, "If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!" Fire from God came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14 - Indeed, fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. So now, please have respect for my life."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10 - Dogs will devour Jezebel on the plot of ground in Jezreel; she will not be buried.'" Then he opened the door and ran away.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - When they went back and told him, he said, "The LORD's word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, 'In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:1 - When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the LORD's splendor filled the temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - When I close up the sky so that it doesn't rain, or command locusts to devour the land's vegetation, or send a plague among my people,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:16 - While this one was still speaking, another messenger arrived and said, "The fire of God has fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants - it has consumed them! And I - only I alone - escaped to tell you!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:13 - It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:20 - 'Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:4 - All those who behave wickedly do not understand - those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the LORD.

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