Words the Bible translates as swallow up
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- 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.
- sha'aphשָׁאַףto pant or gasp for breath, and so to crave something so hard that one seems to pant after it
+1 more meaning
- to trample or crush: to grind the helpless underfoot
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