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Strong's G2719 κατεσθίω (katesthio)

Katesthio means “devour” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2719 — chereb (“knife”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2719
Language Greek
Linked Usages 150
Books 38

Strong's G2719 Quick Answer

Strong's G2719 κατεσθίω (katesthio) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katesthio (kat-es-thee'-o) v. 1. to eat down, i.e. devour {literally or figuratively} It has 150 linked Bible usages across 38 books. Visible English usage signals include devour, fire, lord, devoured, and land. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
katesthio (kat-es-thee'-o) v. 1. to eat down, i.e. devour {literally or figuratively}
Usage
150 linked usages
Books
38 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
devour, fire, lord, devoured, and land

Meaning and Definition

katesthio (kat-es-thee'-o) v. 1. to eat down, i.e. devour {literally or figuratively} [from G2596 and G2068 (including its alternate)] KJV: devour Root(s): G2596, G2068

Original Word
κατεσθίω
Transliteration
katesthio
Derivation
Root: ἐσθίω R1: 2596 R2: 2068
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2719. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to devour

Usage: κατ-εσθίω ("perfective" comp. of ἐσθίω, which see, and cf. M, Pr., 111) [in LXX chiefly for אָכַל ;] to eat up, devour: with accusative, of seed, Mat.13:4, Mrk.4:4, Luk.8:5; τέκνον, Rev.12:4; βιβλαρίδιον, Rev.10:9-10; metaphorically, οἰκίας, Mat.23:13, Mrk.12:40, Luk.20:47; τ. βίον, Luk.15:30; with accusative of person(s), Jhn.2:17 (LXX), 2Co.11:20, Gal.5:15, Rev.11:5 20:9.† (AS)

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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

devour fire lord devoured land thee out sword come said people upon

How Strong's G2719 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 124 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2719 (κατεσθίω) appears 147 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2719 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2719 in the New Testament

15 indexed usages in New Testament.

Strong's G2719 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

124 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 31:15 Septuagint / Brenton

Are we not considered strangers by him? for he has sold us, and quite devoured our money.

Genesis 31:38 Septuagint / Brenton

These twenty years have I been with thee; thy sheep, and thy she-goats have not failed in bearing; I devoured not the rams of thy cattle.

Genesis 37:20 Septuagint / Brenton

Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be.

Strong's G2719 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G2719 in 1 Enoch

3 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2719.

Genesis 31:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Are we not considered strangers by him? for he has sold us, and quite devoured our money.
Genesis 31:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These twenty years have I been with thee; thy sheep, and thy she-goats have not failed in bearing; I devoured not the rams of thy cattle.
Genesis 37:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be.
Genesis 37:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he recognized it, and said, It is my son’s coat, an evil wild beast has devoured him; a wild beast has carried off Joseph.
Genesis 40:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the upper basket there was the work of the baker of every kind which Pharaoh eats; and the fowls of the air ate them out of the basket that was on my head.
Genesis 41:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the seven ill-favored and lean cows devoured the seven well-favored and choice-fleshed cows; and Pharaoh awoke.
Genesis 41:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the seven ill-favored and thin cows ate up the seven first good and choice cows.
Genesis 43:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when they had finished eating the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, that their father said to them, Go again; buy us a little food.
Exodus 10:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall cover the face of the earth, and thou shalt not be able to see the earth; and they shall devour all that is left of the abundance of the earth, which the hail has left you, and shall devour every tree that grows for you on the land.
Exodus 10:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt, and let the locust come up on the land, and it shall devour every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which the hail left.
Exodus 10:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they covered the face of the earth, and the land was wasted, and they devoured all the herbage of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which was left by the hail: there was no green thing left on the trees, nor on all the herbage of the field, in all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 15:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the abundance of thy glory thou hast broken the adversaries to pieces: Thou sentest forth thy wrath, it devoured them as stubble.
Leviticus 9:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured the offerings on the altar, both the whole burnt offerings and the fat; and all the people saw, and were amazed, and fell upon their faces.
Leviticus 10:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
Leviticus 26:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.
Leviticus 26:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall perish among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall devour you.
Numbers 11:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people murmured sinfully before the Lord; and the Lord heard them and was very angry; and fire was kindled among them from the Lord, and devoured a part of the camp.
Numbers 12:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother’s womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.
Numbers 13:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature.
Numbers 16:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Numbers 21:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon, And has consumed as far as Moab, And devoured the pillars of Arnon.
Numbers 26:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up them and Korah, when their assembly perished, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty, and they were made a sign.
Deuteronomy 28:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt carry forth much seed into the field, and thou shalt bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.
Deuteronomy 28:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dress it, and shalt not drink the wine, neither shalt thou delight thyself with it, because the worm shall devour it.
Deuteronomy 28:51 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall eat up the young of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land, so as not to leave to thee corn, wine, oil, the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep, until it shall have destroyed thee;
Deuteronomy 28:55 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
so as not to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemies shall afflict thee in all thy cities.
Deuteronomy 28:57 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the want of all things, secretly in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee in thy cities.
Deuteronomy 32:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, It shall burn to hell below; It shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; It shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy 32:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will make my weapons drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh, It shall glut itself with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity Of the heads of their enemies that rule over them.
Judges 6:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel of the Lord stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened bread; and fire came up out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened bread, and the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.
Judges 9:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the bramble said to the trees, If ye in truth anoint me to reign over you, come, stand under my shadow; and if not, let fire come out from me and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges 9:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Beth-millo, and devour Abimelech.
2 Kingdoms 2:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abner called Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour perpetually? knowest thou not that it will be bitter at last? How long then wilt thou refuse to tell the people to turn from following our brethren?
2 Kingdoms 18:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the land: and the wood consumed more of the people than the sword consumed among the people in that day.
2 Kingdoms 22:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There went up a smoke in his wrath, And fire out of his mouth devours: Coals were kindled at it.
3 Kingdoms 16:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Him that dies of Baasha in the city the dogs shall devour, and him that dies of his in the field the birds of the sky shall devour.
3 Kingdoms 18:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then fire fell from the Lord out of heaven, and devoured the whole burnt offerings, and the wood and the water that was in the trench, and the fire licked up the stones and the earth.
3 Kingdoms 20:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord spoke of Jezebel, saying, The dogs shall devour her within the fortification of Jezreel.
4 Kingdoms 1:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, And if I am a man of God, fire shall come down out of heaven, and devour thee and thy fifty. And fire came down out of heaven, and devoured him and his fifty.
4 Kingdoms 1:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah answered and spoke to him, and said, If I am a man of God, fire shall come down out of heaven, and devour thee and thy fifty. And fire came down out of heaven, and devoured him and his fifty.
4 Kingdoms 1:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, fire came down from heaven, and devoured the two first captains of fifty: and now, I pray, let my life be precious in thine eyes.
4 Kingdoms 9:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
4 Kingdoms 9:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they returned and told him. And he said, It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel.
2 Chronicles 7:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when Solomon had finished praying, then the fire came down from heaven, and devoured the whole burnt offerings and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house.
2 Chronicles 7:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If I should restrain the heaven and there should be no rain, and if I should command the locust to devour the trees, and if I should send pestilence upon my people;
Job 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, Fire has fallen from heaven, and burned up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds likewise; And I having escaped alone am come to tell thee.
Job 18:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let the soles of his feet be devoured: And death shall consume his beauty.
Job 20:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let all darkness wait for him: A fire that burns not out shall consume him; And let a stranger plague his house.
Job 22:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, And the fire shall devour what is left of their property.
Psalms 13:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Will not all the workers of iniquity know, Who eat up my people as they would eat bread? They have not called upon the Lord.
Psalms 20:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven at the time of thy presence: The Lord shall trouble them in his anger, And fire shall devour them.
Psalms 68:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Psalms 77:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He sent against them the dog fly, and it devoured them; And the frog, and it spoiled them.
Psalms 77:63 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins mourned not.
Psalms 78:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For they have devoured Jacob, And laid his place waste.
Psalms 104:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And devoured all the grass in their land, And devoured the fruit of their ground.
Proverbs 30:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.
Proverbs 30:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.
Isaiah 1:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.
Isaiah 1:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.
Isaiah 9:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
even Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is exalted.
Isaiah 10:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that day the mountains shall be consumed, and the hills, and the forests, and fire shall devour both soul and body: and he that flees shall be as one fleeing from burning flame.
Isaiah 29:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
from the Lord of hosts: for there shall be a visitation with thunder, and earthquake, and a loud noise, a rushing tempest, and devouring flame of fire.
Isaiah 30:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and his wrath shall be as water and violent hail.
Isaiah 31:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Assyrian shall fall: not the sword of a great man, nor the sword of a mean man shall devour him; neither shall he flee from the face of the sword: but the young men shall be overthrown:
Isaiah 33:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now shall ye see, now shall ye perceive; the strength of your breath shall be vain; fire shall devour you.
Isaiah 50:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, the Lord, the Lord, will help me; who will hurt me? behold, all ye shall wax old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you.
Isaiah 61:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But ye shall be called priests of the Lord, the ministers of God: ye shall eat the strength of nations, and shall be admired because of their wealth.
Jeremiah 2:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In vain have I smitten your children; ye have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet ye feared not.
Jeremiah 5:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because ye have spoken this word, behold, I have made my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Jeremiah 5:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they shall devour your harvest, and your bread; and shall devour your sons, and your daughters; and they shall devour your sheep, and your calves, and devour your vineyards, and your fig plantations, and your olive yards: and they shall utterly destroy your strong cities, wherein ye trusted, with the sword.
Jeremiah 8:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We shall hear the neighing of his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of his horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.
Jeremiah 10:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Jeremiah 12:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The ravagers are come to every passage in the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other: no flesh has any peace.
Jeremiah 17:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But it shall come to pass, if ye will not hearken to me to sanctify the Sabbath day, to bear no burdens, nor go in with them by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the streets of Jerusalem, and shall not be quenched.
Jeremiah 26:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And that day shall be to the Lord our God a day of vengeance, to take vengeance on his enemies: and the sword of the Lord shall devour, and be glutted, and be drunken with their blood: for the Lord has a sacrifice from the land of the north at the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah 26:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Proclaim it at Migdol, and declare it at Memphis: say ye, Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured thy yew tree.
Jeremiah 27:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thy pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
Jeremiah 28:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.
Jeremiah 30:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the streets of the son of Hadad.
Lamentations 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He has broken in his fierce anger All the horn of Israel: He has turned back his right hand From the face of the enemy, And has kindled a flame in Jacob as fire, And it has devoured all things round about.
Lamentations 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord has accomplished his wrath; He has poured out his fierce anger, And has kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured her foundations.
Ezekiel 3:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to me, Son of man, eat this volume, and go and speak to the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 15:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth of the fire, and yet fire shall devour them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set my face against them.
Ezekiel 19:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice boughs, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.
Ezekiel 21:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and thou shalt say to the forest of Negeb, Hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord, even the Lord; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame that is kindled shall not be quenched, and every face shall be scorched with it from the south to the north.
Ezekiel 22:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and thy widows are multiplied in the midst of thee.
Ezekiel 23:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will bring upon thee my jealousy, and they shall deal with thee in great wrath: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and shall cast down thy remnant with the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy remnant fire shall devour.
Ezekiel 28:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy merchandise, I have profaned thy sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of thee, this shall devour thee; and I will make thee to be ashes upon thy land before all that see thee.
Ezekiel 34:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, ye feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat: but ye feed not my sheep.
Ezekiel 36:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But your grapes and your fruits, O mountains of Israel, shall my people eat; for they are hoping to come.
Ezekiel 36:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord God: Because they said to thee, Thou land devourest men, and hast been bereaved of thy nation;
Daniel 7:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on the earth, which shall excel all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and trample and destroy it.
Hosea 2:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.
Hosea 5:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages.
Hosea 7:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.
Hosea 7:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew it not; and gray hairs came upon him, and he knew it not.
Hosea 8:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for they sowed blighted seed, and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.
Hosea 8:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Israel has forgotten him that made him, and they have built fanes, and Judah has multiplied walled cities: but I will send fire on his cities, and it shall devour their foundations.
Hosea 13:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear excited, and I will rend the caul of their heart, and the lions’ whelps of the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces.
Joel 1:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
Joel 1:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the cattle of the field have looked up to thee: for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.
Joel 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.
Joel 2:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, even my great army, which I sent against you.
Amos 1:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the foundations of the son of Hadad.
Amos 1:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Gaza, and it shall devour its foundations.
Amos 1:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Tyre, and it shall devour the foundations of it.
Amos 1:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will send forth a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls.
Amos 1:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbah, and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the day of war, and she shall be shaken in the days of her destruction:
Amos 2:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But I will send forth a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of its cities: and Moab shall perish in weakness, with a shout, and with the sound of a trumpet.
Amos 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem.
Amos 4:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I smote you with parching, and with blight: ye multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your olive yards: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.
Amos 5:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Seek ye the Lord, and ye shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.
Amos 7:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when he had finished devouring the grass of the land, that I said, Lord God, be merciful; who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number.
Amos 7:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus has the Lord shown me; and, behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord’s portion.
Obadiah 1:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau shall be for stubble; and Israel shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a cornfield left to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken.
Micah 3:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided them as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,
Nahum 2:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will burn up thy multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy lions; and I will utterly destroy thy prey from off the land, and thy deeds shall no more at all be heard of.
Nahum 3:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, thy people within thee are as women: the gates of thy land shall surely be opened to thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
Nahum 3:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There the fire shall devour thee; the sword shall utterly destroy thee, it shall devour thee as the locust, and thou shalt be pressed down as a palmerworm.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2719, grouped by book.

Genesis 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 12 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Obadiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Luke 3 usages, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Galatians 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 5 usages, New Testament
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 152 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 3 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G2719 FAQ

What does katesthio (κατεσθίω) mean?

Katesthio (Strong's G2719) is a Greek word most simply glossed "devour". katesthio (kat-es-thee'-o) v. 1. to eat down, i.e. devour {literally or figuratively}

How many times is katesthio (κατεσθίω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 150 linked usages for Strong's G2719 across 38 books.

Where can I study katesthio (κατεσθίω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2719 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate katesthio (κατεσθίω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as devour, fire, lord, devoured, land, and thee. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2719 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 124 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 3 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2719, with linked reader references where each row is available.