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
They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
They are all hot as an ouen, and haue deuoured their Iudges; all their Kings are fallen, there is none among them that calleth vnto me.
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
Strangers haue deuoured his strength, and hee knoweth it not: yea, gray haires are here and there vpon him, yet he knoweth not.
1611 marginal noteHeb. sprinkled.
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Eaten; swallowed with greediness; consumed; destroyed; wasted; slain.
