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
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 smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth deuoured, coales were kindled by it.
1611 marginal noteHeb. by his
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Hee sent diuers sorts of flies among them, which deuoured them: and frogges which destroyed them.
1611 marginal noteExod.8.24. & 8.6.
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
For they haue deuoured Iacob: and laid waste his dwelling place.
And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
And did eate vp all the herbes in their land: and deuoured the fruite of their ground.
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Eaten; swallowed with greediness; consumed; destroyed; wasted; slain.
