KJV dictionary & concordance
1. To destroy, use up, or bring to an end. 2. To waste away or be exhausted.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 41:30
Complete exact-word concordance
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of briberie.
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
All darknesse shalbe hid in his secret places: a fire not blowen shall consume him; it shall goe ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
Drought and heate consume the snow waters: so doeth the graue those which haue sinned.
1611 marginal noteHebr. violently take it.
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambes: they shall consume: into smoke shall they consume away.
1611 marginal noteHebr. the preciousnes of Lambes.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
When thou with rebukes doest correct man for iniquitie, thou makest his beautie to consume away like a moth: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.
1611 marginal noteHeb. that which is to be desired in him, to melt away.
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Like sheepe they are layd in the graue, death shall feede on them; and the vpright shall haue dominion ouer them in the morning, and their beauty shall consume in the graue, from their dwelling.
1611 marginal noteOr, strength
1611 marginal noteOr, the graue being an habitation to euery one of them.
consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Iacob, vnto the ends of the earth. Selah.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanitie, and their yeeres in trouble.
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
In the same day shall the LORD shaue with a rasor that is hired, namely by them beyond the riuer, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the haire of the feet: and it shal also consume the beard.
1611 marginal note2.King. 19.35.
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.
And shall consume the glory of his forrest, and of his fruitfull field both soule and body: and they shall bee as when a standerd bearer fainteth.
1611 marginal noteHeb. from the soule and euen to the flesh.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To waste away slowly; to be exhausted.
