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Devour [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To eat up; to eat with greediness; to eat ravenously, as a beast of prey, or as a hungry man.

2. We will say, some evil beast hath devoured him. Genesis 37:20 .

3. In the morning, he shall devour the prey. Genesis 49:27 .

4. To destroy; to consume with rapidity and violence.

5. I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad. Amos 1:4 .

6. Famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezekiel 7:15 .

7. To destroy; to annihilate; to consume.

8. He seemed in swiftness to devour the way.

9. To waste; to consume; to spend in dissipation and riot.

10. As soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots. Luke 15:30 .

11. To consume wealth and substance by fraud, oppression, or illegal exactions.

12. Ye devour widows houses. Matthew 23:14 .

13. To destroy spiritually; to ruin the soul.

14. Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour 1 Peter 5:8 .

15. To slay.

16. The sword shall devour the young lions. Nahum 2.

17. To enjoy with avidity.

18. Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, devour her oer and oer with vast delight.

Devour [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.

3. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.

Devourable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That may be devoured.

Devoured [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Eaten; swallowed with greediness; consumed; destroyed; wasted; slain.

Devoured [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Devourer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who devours; he or that which eats, consumes or destroys; he that preys on.

Devourer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, devours.

Devouring [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Eating greedily; consuming; wasting; destroying; annihilating.

Devouring [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Devouringly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a devouring manner.

Devouringly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a devouring manner.

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Genesis 31:15

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

Genesis 37:20

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”

Genesis 37:33

And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

Genesis 41:4

And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

And the cows that were sickly and thin devoured the seven sleek, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke up,

Genesis 41:7

And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized it was a dream.

Genesis 41:20

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.

Genesis 41:21

And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.

Genesis 41:24

And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”

Genesis 49:27

Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

Exodus 10:5

And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:

They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.

Exodus 10:12

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”

Exodus 24:17

And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.

Leviticus 10:2

And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died in the presence of the LORD.

Numbers 13:32

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

Numbers 22:4

And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,

Numbers 23:24

Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”

Numbers 24:8

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.

Numbers 26:10

And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’

Deuteronomy 32:24

They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.