Strong's #2719: katesthio (pronounced kat-es-thee'-o)

from 2596 and 2068 (including its alternate); to eat down, i.e. devour (literally or figuratively):--devour.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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katesthiō

1) to consume by eating, to eat up, devour

1a) of birds

1b) of a dragon

1c) of a man eating up the little book

2) metaphorically

2a) to devour, i.e. squander, waste: substance

2b) to devour, i.e. forcibly appropriate: widows' property

2c) to strip one of his goods

1c1) to ruin (by the infliction of injuries)

2d) by fire, to devour, i.e. to utterly consume, destroy

2e) of the consumption of the strength of body and mind by strong emotions

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G2596 and G2068 (including its alternate)

Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

 

Matthew 13:4: "the fowls came and devoured them up:"
Matthew 23:14: "Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence"
Mark 4:4: "of the air came and devoured it up."
Mark 12:40: " Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these"
Luke 8:5: "the fowls of the air devoured it."
Luke 15:30: "thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed"
Luke 20:47: "Which devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers:"
John 2:17: "zeal of thine house hath eaten me up."
2 Corinthians 11:20: "if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man"
Galatians 5:15: "if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed"
Revelation 10:9: "unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter,"
Revelation 10:10: "angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in"
Revelation 11:5: "their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man"
Revelation 12:4: "which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born."
Revelation 20:9: "fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured"