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
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Yet the defenced citie shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wildernesse: there shall the calfe feede, and there shall he lie downe, and consume the branches thereof.
¶ I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
¶ I will surely consume them, saith the LORD; there shalbe no grapes on the vine, nor figges on the figtree, and the leafe shall fade, and the things that I haue giuen them, shall passe away from them.
1611 marginal noteOr, in gathering I will consume.
1611 marginal noteIsai. 5.1. &c.
1611 marginal noteMatth.21.19. luke 13.6. &c.
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
When they fast I will not heare their crie, and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation I wil not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
1611 marginal noteProu.1.28 isa.1.15. cha.11.11. ezek. 8.18. mic. 3.4.
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shal consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
1611 marginal noteAmos 1.4.
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
That they may want bread and water, & be astonied one with an other, and consume away for their iniquitie.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
Therefore thus sayth the LORD God; I will euen rent it with a stormie wind in my fury: and there shall be an ouerflowing showre in mine anger, and great hailestones in my fury, to consume it.
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wildernesse: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my iudgements, which if a man doe, hee shall euen liue in them, and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said I would powre out my furie vpon them in the wildernesse, to consume them:
1611 marginal noteExod. 16.28.
1611 marginal noteNumb. 14.29. and 26.65.
¶ And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
¶ And thou sonne of man, prophecie, and say, Thus saith the LORD God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproch: Euen say thou; The sword, the sword is drawen, for the slaughter it is fourbished, to consume because of the glittering:
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countreys, and will consume thy filthinesse out of thee.
Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
Heape on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burnt.
Select a book to filter the concordance. Occurrences and verses are counted separately.
Source order
Historical English dictionary sources
To waste away slowly; to be exhausted.
