170 occurrences in 12 translations

'Consume' in the Bible

And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, 'Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked?

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfGod KillingLack Of DiscriminationGod Kills

peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty -- the righteous who are in its midst?

Verse ConceptsFiftiesDestruction Of CitiesNot SparingNumbers Of Righteous People

And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsBad Luck

Now if the household is too small for a lamb [to be consumed], let him and his next door neighbor take one according to the number of people [in the households]; according to what each man can eat, you are to divide the lamb.

Verse ConceptsSmallnessEating Before GodAccording To PeopleFew PeopleNeighbours

But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

Verse Conceptsethics, socialLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoverty, Remedies ForVineyardOrchardsUnusedAgricultureRestFarming

Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Be AngryIsrael Hardened

Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

Verse ConceptsGod Changing His MindGod Might Kill His PeopleGod Turned Back From Harming ThemLet Not God Be AngryGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

Verse ConceptsFoodStubbornness, Consequences OfTent Of MeetingObstinacy Against GodGod Might Kill His PeopleMilk And HoneyRich Food

For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.

Verse ConceptsNecksCharacter Of WickedCosmeticsPeople Stripping OffGod Might Kill His Peoplejewelry

I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Verse ConceptsEyes, Affected BydiseasesdisabilitiesVisionPunishment Of the WickedFeverThreateningsSowing In VainEyes HarmedUseless LabourFear Will ComeDepressionSpilling Your Seed On The Groundterrorism

"You won't have power to resist your enemies. You'll perish among the nations and the land of your enemies will consume you.

And those who are left of you -- they consume away in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, with them they consume away.

Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheOffspringParents SinPeople RottingSurvivors Threatened

and also even this, in their being in the land of their enemies, I have not rejected them, nor have I loathed them, to consume them, to break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God; --

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentGod Not ForsakingThe Lord Is GodCovenant Made At Sinai

Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

Verse ConceptsSeparationSeparation From Evil PeopleGod Might Kill His People

Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

Verse ConceptsSeparation From Evil PeopleGod Might Kill His People

God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo. He shall consume the nations his enemies, and break their bones, and with his arrows shall smite them in pieces.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenHorns VictoriousWild OxPeople OvercomingGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptUnicorns

"Eleazar's son Phinehas, grandson of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from Israel. Because his zealousness reflected my own zeal for them, I didn't consume Israel in my jealousy.

Verse ConceptseagernessGod, Zeal OfAction Lest God Be Angry

Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceFire Emanating From Godrisk

And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

Verse ConceptsTrapEvil TrappingDo Not Have Other godsShow No Mercypity

And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsGraduallyWild Beasts SubduedThe Lord Will Drive Them OutGradual Conquest Of The Land

Only, you must not consume the blood; instead, pour it out on the ground as you would water.

Verse ConceptsSanitation, FoodPeople Consuming BloodForbidden FoodEating Meat

"If the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish his name is distant from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and your flock what the LORD has provided for you, as he instructed you. You may consume them in your cities as much as you please.

Verse ConceptsFar From HereA Place For God's Name

Only be sure to refrain from eating blood, because blood is the source of life and you must not consume blood with the meat.

Verse ConceptsBlood, as basis of lifePeople Consuming BloodForbidden FoodBloodDeerEating MeatRemoving People From Your Life

You must not consume it; instead, pour it on the ground as you would water.

You must offer your burnt offerings, both the meat and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. You must offer the blood by pouring it on the altar of the LORD your God while you consume the meat.

Verse ConceptsThe Altar Of The LordSacrifice On The Bronze AltarRegulating SacrificesEating Meat

Then in the presence of the LORD your God, in the place where he'll choose to establish his name, you may consume the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your livestock and flock, so that you'll learn to revere the LORD your God all your life.

Verse ConceptsLearningFirstbornChoicesGrainReverence, And ObedienceSacred PlacesThe Fear Of The LordTithes And Offeringfriendliness

'Jehovah doth cause to cleave to thee the pestilence, till He consume thee from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it.

Verse ConceptsPestilence

As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahNot Knowing PeopleThose OppressedAbuseoppression

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Verse ConceptsLocustsPlanting Seeds

You'll plant a vineyard, but you won't drink wine or harvest any grapes because worms will consume it.

Verse ConceptsGrapesVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationMaggotsworms

All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

Verse Conceptsbugs

Its army will consume the offspring of your animals and the produce of your soil until you are exterminated. They will leave you without your grain, wine, oil, the increase of your cattle, and the lamb of your flock, until you are completely destroyed.

Verse ConceptsOilFamine ComingFamine Will Come

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsHell, Punishment OfAfterlifeHell, As An ExperienceEarth, Judgment OfMountains RemovedEarth's FoundationFire Emanating From GodGod Has AngerState Of The Dead

I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfGod Can Harm People

If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodConsequences Of Forsaking GodGod Will Bring HarmForgiving Others Who Hurt YouServing God

The bramble said to the trees,“If you really are anointing meas king over you,come and find refuge in my shade.But if not,may fire come out from the brambleand consume the cedars of Lebanon.”

Verse ConceptsCedarShadowsBramblesBurning PlantsPerforming The Truth

But if not, may fire come from Abimelech and consume the lords of Shechem and Beth-millo, and may fire come from the lords of Shechem and Beth-millo and consume Abimelech.”

Verse ConceptsBurning People

She must not consume anything extracted from grape vines, including wine or anything intoxicating, and she must not eat anything unclean, doing everything that I commissioned her to do."

Verse ConceptsStrong DrinkPollution ForbiddenDrinking No WineAlcoholic Beverages

And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfSorrowUnhappinessWeepingDeath As Punishment

and Saul saith unto the Kenite, 'Go, turn aside, go down from the midst of Amalek, lest I consume thee with it, and thou didst kindness with all the sons of Israel, in their going up out of Egypt;' and the Kenite turneth aside from the midst of Amalek.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In Human RelationshipsKindnessSeparation From Evil People

and Abner calleth unto Joab, and saith, 'For ever doth the sword consume? hast thou not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? and till when dost thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren?'

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleEternal Judgement

And I consume them, and smite them, And they rise not, and fall under my feet.

Verse ConceptsFeetDownfallPeople Overcoming

behold, I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

Verse ConceptsFiftiesDeath Due To God's PresenceFire From HeavenMan Of God

And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

Verse ConceptsFiftiesDeath Due To God's PresenceFire From HeavenMan Of Godhumor

This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.

Verse ConceptsProphetic SignsSigns From GodVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationLiteral PlantingReapingFallow Land

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on My people,

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTClosing Up

of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn't consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.

Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfMercifulnessMind, Of GodGod Not Forsaking

Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

Verse ConceptsKilling Israelites

The hungry consume his harvest,even taking it out of the thorns.The thirsty pant for his children’s wealth.

Verse ConceptsHarvestNot Reaping What You SowOvercoming Obstacles

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodFace Of GoddrynessMouthsPeople WitheredScorchingThe Outer DarknessEscaping EvilOuter Darkness

For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Is SinGodlessnessTentsHypocrisy

It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.

Verse ConceptsDecaySkinDeath Of A Family Member

"He will restore what he has attained from his work and won't consume it; he won't enjoy the profits from his business transactions,

Verse ConceptsDrawbacks To Riches

Nothing is left for him to consume;therefore, his prosperity will not last.

Verse ConceptsNot Prospering

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

Verse ConceptsBurning PeopleThe Outer DarknessOuter Darkness

Is not he who rose against us destroyed, and doth not the fire consume his residue?

Verse ConceptsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of Sin

Indeed, that [is] a fire that will consume up to Abaddon, and it would uproot all my crop.

Verse ConceptsHarvestThe DestroyerAdultery

Will evildoers never understand?They consume My people as they consume bread;they do not call on the Lord.

Verse ConceptsEating, Metaphorical UseCalling upon GodEvildoersNot PrayingThose Who Were Ignorantatheism

When you appear, you will set them ablaze like a fire furnace. In his wrath, the LORD will consume them, and the fire will devour them.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesWicked Described AsBurning PeopleGod Will Be Angry

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSmokeDisappearanceThe Wicked Will PerishPurity Of New CreationsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Verse ConceptsInsectsRebukeBeauty, Temporal Nature OfVanityPossessions DecayingMothsMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsGod Requite Them!Time Passing

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Verse ConceptsFeedingGrave, TheSheolSheepInadequate ShepherdingDeath Of The WickedBeauty, Temporal Nature OfUprightnessHow Death Is InevitableThe Fact Of DeathDeath Of Loved One

Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

Verse ConceptsGod's DominionGod Angry With The NationsPsalm InterjectionsKnowing About God's Kingdomwrath

Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodRestraintRight Hand Of GodGod's Hand

Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

Verse ConceptsBurning PlantsHarming Treesfirefighters

Fire goes out from his presence to consume his enemies on every side.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyBurning People

For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Verse ConceptsDamage To The BodyFurnacesImminent Tomorrowsmoking

Those who linger over their wine, who consume mixed drinks.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholEffect Of WineMixed Wine

A generation -- swords are their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.

Verse ConceptsKnifesKnivesTeethOppressorsRace

When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze at them with his eyes?

Verse ConceptsGrowth In WealthFinancesFamily ProblemsWealth And ProsperitySaving Money

The words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious,but the lips of a fool consume him.

Verse ConceptsFools

And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.

Verse ConceptsLambsSheepAnimals Eating

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBarbersBaldnessBeardsHairsHiringLegsShavingRazorsThe Hair Of The BodyTrimming Facial HairCutting HairBeyond The EuphratesHair

"The light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame, and it will burn and consume Assyria's thorns and briers in a single day.

Verse ConceptsBriersLight, SpiritualThornsShort Time For Action

And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsHarming Trees

Lord, Your hand is lifted up to take action,but they do not see it.They will see Your zeal for Your people,and they will be put to shame.The fire for Your adversaries will consume them!

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyHand Of GodShameStoringZealGod's HandBurning PeopleNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsShame Will Come

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

Verse ConceptsChaosCities Under AttackEmpty CitiesChaos As JudgmentHomestead

And fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword -- not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.

Verse ConceptsSwordsGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesForced Labour

You will conceive chaff;you will give birth to stubble.Your breath is fire that will consume you.

Verse ConceptsChaffStrawLight As ChaffFire Of Evil

"This will be your reminder that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own. But the year after that you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.

Verse ConceptsProphetic SignsSigns From GodVineyardPlanting VineyardsLiteral PlantingReapingFallow LandReaping What You Sowsowing

“I will make those who oppress you consume their own flesh [in mutually destructive wars]And they will become drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine;And all mankind will know [with a knowledge grounded in personal experience] that I, the Lord, am your SaviorAnd your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAlcoholDrunkenness, Figurative OfKnowledge, Of GodMission, Of IsraelOppression, God's Attitude ToPeople Consuming BloodThose OppressedGod Making DrunkMighty OneKnowing About God's Kingdomoppression

And ye are called 'Priests of Jehovah,' 'Ministers of our God,' is said of you, The strength of nations ye consume, And in their honour ye do boast yourselves.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceMinistry, Nature OfMission, Of IsraelA Kingdom Of PriestsRoyal PriesthoodGetting RichRichesGentiles

Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume thee -- the crown of the head!

Verse ConceptsShavingMemphiscrowns

Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Hosts says:Because you have spoken this word,I am going to make My wordsbecome fire in your mouth.These people are the wood,and the fire will consume them.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersFire Of God's WordSpeaking The Word God GivesspeakingThe Power Of Wordspeople

They will consume your harvest and your food.They will consume your sons and your daughters.They will consume your flocks and your herds.They will consume your vines and your fig trees.They will destroy with the swordyour fortified cities in which you trust.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFig treeFalse ConfidenceHarvestSowing And ReapingDestroying VineyardsWar As God's JudgmentDestruction Of CitiesNo FoodChildren SufferingNo More Tending The Flock

The bellows blow fiercely to consume the lead with the fire. The assayer keeps on refining, but the impurities aren't separated out.

Verse ConceptsUseless Labour

I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

Verse ConceptsFig treedrynessGrapesHarvestSowing And ReapingVinesFamine

From Dan hath been heard the snorting of his horses, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, Trembled hath all the land, And they come in and consume the land and its fulness, The city and the inhabitants in it.

Verse ConceptsNosesNeighing And Braying

Pour out Thy fury on the nations that have not known Thee, And on the families that have not called in Thy name, For they have eaten up Jacob, Yea, they have eaten him up, yea, they consume him, And his habitation they have made desolate!

Verse ConceptsFamilies, Nature OfCalling upon GodDestruction Of CountriesNot Knowing GodGod Angry With The NationsNot PrayingNot Seeking God

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Of HypocritesdiseasesPlaguesPestilencePointless Fasting

And I have appointed over them four kinds, an affirmation of Jehovah, The sword to slay, and the dogs to drag, And the fowl of the heavens, And the beast of the earth, to consume and to devour.

Verse ConceptsdogsWild Animals DevouringBirds EatingFour Other ThingsPets

If you do not listen to Me to consecrate the Sabbath day by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, I will set fire to its gates, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem and not be extinguished.”

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtBurning JerusalemSabbath Observed

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

אכלה 
'oklah 
Usage: 18

בּלה 
Balah 
Usage: 15

גּזל 
Gazal 
Usage: 30

דּעך 
Da`ak 
Usage: 9

המם 
Hamam 
Usage: 13

חסל 
Chacal 
Usage: 1

כּלה 
Kalah 
Usage: 207

כּלה 
Kalah 
Usage: 20

כּלּיון 
Killayown 
Usage: 2

מוּג 
Muwg 
Usage: 17

מסה 
Macah 
Usage: 4

מקק 
Maqaq 
Usage: 10

סוּף 
Cuwph 
Usage: 9

סוּף 
Cuwph (Aramaic) 
Usage: 2

ספה 
Caphah 
Usage: 20

צמת 
Tsamath 
Usage: 15

שׁחפת 
Shachepheth 
Usage: 2

שׁמד 
Sh@mad (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

תּמם 
Tamam 
Usage: 63

ἀναλίσκω 
Analisko 
Usage: 3

δαπανάω 
Dapanao 
spend , be at charges with , consume
Usage: 4

καταναλίσκω 
Katanalisko 
Usage: 1

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