KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of devour, meaning to eat greedily; to consume, destroy, or waste rapidly and completely.
Definition sources
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 smoake out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth deuoured: coales were kindled by it.
1611 marginal noteHeb. by.
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.
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
But if yee refuse and rebell, yee shalbe deuoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Therefore hath the curse deuoured the earth, and they that dwell therin are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
In vaine haue I smitten your children, they receiued no correction: your owne sword hath deuoured your prophets, like a destroying lyon.
1611 marginal noteIsai.9.13. cha. 5.3
1611 marginal noteMatth.23.29. &c.
For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
For shame hath deuoured the labour of our fathers from our youth: their flockes and their heards, their sonnes and their daughters.
The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones, for they are come and haue deuoured the land, and all that is in it, the citie, and those that dwell therein.
1611 marginal noteHebr. the fulnesse therof.
1611 marginal noteCha.4.15.
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Eaten; swallowed with greediness; consumed; destroyed; wasted; slain.
