Strong's Number 2719
The Linked Word Project
Transliteration:
katesthio {kat-es-thee'-o} or kataphago {kat-aph-ag'-o}
Word Origin:
from
2596
and
2068
(including its alternate)
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
devour 10, eat up 3, devour up 2
Total: 15
Definition:
to consume by eating, to eat up, devour
of birds
of a dragon
of a man eating up the little book
metaph.
to devour i.e. squander, waste: substance
to devour i.e. forcibly appropriate: widows' property
to strip one of his goods
to ruin (by the infliction of injuries)
by fire, to devour i.e. to utterly consume, destroy
of the consumption of the strength of body and mind by strong emotions