Words the Bible translates as devour
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- akhalאָכַלto eat: to take something in and use it up, whether food into a body or anything into a force that destroys it
- phageinφαγεῖνto eat: to take in food, and by extension to consume or use something up.
- esthiōἐσθίωto consume, devour: of fire that eats up what it burns
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- to eat: to take in food
- katesthiōκατεσθίωto eat up completely: to devour, consume, or swallow down until nothing is left
- balaבָּלַעto swallow: to take something wholly in and make it disappear, from gulping food down to engulfing and destroying.
- katapinōκαταπίνωto swallow: to take something down so completely that it is gone, whether gulped as food, engulfed by sea or earth, or consumed and destroyed.
- akhalאֲכַלto eat: to take something in and use it up, whether food into a body, flesh into a beast, or a country into a conquering power
- yalaיָלַעto blurt out: to let a promise escape the lips before the mind has weighed it
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