KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of devour, meaning to eat greedily; to consume, destroy, or waste rapidly and completely.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 31:15
Complete exact-word concordance
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
For the battell was there scattered ouer the face of all the countrey: and the wood deuoured more people that day, then the sword deuoured.
1611 marginal noteHebr. multiplied to deuoure.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
There went vp a smoake out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth deuoured: coales were kindled by it.
1611 marginal noteHeb. by.
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Eaten; swallowed with greediness; consumed; destroyed; wasted; slain.
