48 occurrences in 12 translations

'Swallowed' in the Bible

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh woke up, and it was only a dream.

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsThin Bodies

The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this to the magicians, but no one can tell me what it means.”

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsNo One AvailableTelling DreamsThin Bodies

For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

Verse ConceptsRodsSwallowingPutting Things DownThings Changedmagic

and they go not in to see when the holy thing is swallowed, that they have died.'

Verse ConceptsExclusion

But even as they were chewing the meat and before they had swallowed it, the LORD became very angry with the people and struck them with a disastrous plague.

Verse ConceptsTeethAt The Same Time

and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth and swallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol -- then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.'

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheMoses, Significance OfRetributionRebellion Against God, Nature OfSwallowingWhilst AliveDeath Of The Wicked

And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of The Wicked, Examples OfThe Ground Being SplitSwallowingpossessions

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.

Verse ConceptsSwallowingTwo Hundred And SomeOther References To Mouths

And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:

Verse ConceptsSwallowing

But when they cried out to the LORD, he placed darkness between you and the Egyptians, brought the sea upon the Egyptians, and swallowed them up. Your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you lived in the desert for a long time.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsGod Led Them Through The WildernessStaying A Long TimeLooking At God's Works

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsOvernightFords

Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

Verse ConceptsHarvestNot Reaping What You SowOvercoming Obstacles

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

Verse ConceptsGod Is HolyRash PeopleSand And Gravel

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Verse ConceptsGetting RichFinancesA Fool And His Money Shall PartWealth And Prosperity

Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

Verse ConceptsSpeaking To God

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Verse ConceptsEvil Desires

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Dumb Dove far off.' -- A secret treasure of David, in the Philistines' taking hold of him in Gath. Favour me, O God, for man swallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresseth me,

Verse ConceptsMusicThose OppressedAll Day

Mine enemies have swallowed up all the day, For many are fighting against me, O most High,

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfMany EnemiesAll DayEnemy Attacksharassment

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

Verse ConceptsOther References To Mouths

They reel to and fro, and move as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up.

Verse ConceptsWorldly DilemmasStormsStaggeringdrunkards

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Verse ConceptsUnnamed People Angry With Others

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

Verse ConceptsFools

The leaders of the people mislead them,and those they mislead are swallowed up.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sBeing MisleadMisleading ChildrenLeaders

And swallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the covering that is spread over all the nations.

Verse ConceptsRemoving People From Your LifeThe Environment

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinking, abstention fromDrunkenness, Figurative OfDebaucheryLeaders, SpiritualStumblingDrunkenness, ResultsStaggeringStrong DrinkWicked ProphetsDrunkennessMaking DecisionsDecision Makingbeer

For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredFar From Here

A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting -- who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her.

Verse ConceptsHeatNosesSeeking For Concrete ThingsDo Not Grow WearyPassiontired

And wild asses have stood on high places, They have swallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Characteristics OfHaving No BreathWild Donkeys

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

Verse ConceptsConfusionSnakesStomachsEmpty People

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Verse ConceptsBabylonBabylon, History OfFortificationsFalse GodsThe judgment of babylon

The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toFortificationsFortressesAnger Of God, ConsequencesJacob, The PatriarchDestruction Of StrongholdsSwallowingPeople Being PollutedNot Sparing

The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Verse ConceptsLamentingSongsGrowth Of EvilSwallowingGod As EnemyHouses Under Attack

All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

Verse ConceptsBitingTeethGnashing Of TeethHissingPeople WaitingSpeaking With The Mouth

Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

Verse ConceptsVain TalkPressingFaintnessTaking PossessionUnder One's BreathFungossiping

Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

Verse ConceptsSwallowingForeigners Included Among The People

For -- as ye have drunk on My holy mount, Drink do all the nations continually, And they have drunk and have swallowed, And they have been as they have not been.

Verse ConceptsPeople Passing Away

Then He said to them, “My soul is swallowed up in sorrow —to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake.”

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessStaying Put

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Verse ConceptsThe Immortal SoulTransient BodyClothed With Good ThingsOvercoming DeathPeople Are CorruptibleScriptures Fulfilled

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

Verse ConceptsCorruption Of Bodyeternal life, experience ofMortalityClothed With Good ThingsNaked In ShameLife And Death

By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up;

Verse ConceptsdrowningMoses, Life OfSeaDry LandExploits Of FaithComing To The Red SeaDeath Of Other Groups

So I took the little book from the angel’s hand and ate it, and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey; but once I had swallowed it, my stomach was bitter.

Verse ConceptsBitter FoodSweetnessSlaves Of GodVoice Of The Archangel

And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

Verse ConceptsOther References To MouthsGod HelpsBeing Overwhelmedhelpingwoman

Bible Theasaurus

Accept (176 instances)
Engulfed (18 instances)
Enveloped (13 instances)
Swallow (42 instances)
Swallowed (48 instances)
Withdraw (65 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לוּע 
Luwa` 
Usage: 2

καταπίνω 
Katapino 
Usage: 6

בּלע 
Bala` 
swallow ... , destroy , devour , covered , at...end
Usage: 49

בּלע 
Bela` 
Usage: 2

גּמא 
Gama' 
Usage: 2

דּרור 
D@rowr 
Usage: 2

עגוּר 
`aguwr 
Usage: 2

שׁאף 
Sha'aph 
Usage: 14

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