KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A small bird. Sense 2: To take into the mouth and pass inward, consume, engulf, devour, or overwhelm.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Numbers 16:30
Complete exact-word concordance
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Let not the water flood ouerflow me, neither let the deepe swallow mee vp, and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon me.
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Yea the sparrowe hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for her selfe, where she may lay her young, euen thine altars, O LORD of hostes, my king and my God.
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Let vs swallow them vp aliue, as the graue, and whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
As the bird by wandring, as the swallow by flying: so the curse causelesse shall not come.
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
The words of a wise mans mouth are gratious: but the lips of a foole will swallow vp himselfe.
1611 marginal noteHeb. grace.
1611 marginal noteProu.10.32. and 12.13.
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
He will swallow vp death in victorie, and the LORD God wil wipe away teares from off al faces, and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
1611 marginal note1.Cor.15.55
1611 marginal noteReuel.7.17. and 21.4.
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter; I did mourne as a doue: mine eyes faile with looking vpward: O LORD, I am oppressed, vndertake for me.
1611 marginal noteOr, ease me.
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Yea the Storke in the heauen knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow obserue the time of their coming; but my people know not the iudgement of the LORD.
1611 marginal noteIsai. 1.3.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
For they haue sowen the winde, and they shall reape the whirlewinde: it hath no stalke: the budde shall yeeld no meale: if so be it yeeld, the strangers shall swallow it vp.
1611 marginal noteOr, standing corne.
¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
¶ Heare this, O ye that swallow vp the needy, euen to make the poore of the land to faile,
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