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So Esau said unto Jacob. Do let me devour some of the red - this red, for, famished, I am. For this cause, was his name called Edom.

Verse ConceptsYielding To TemptationRequesting FoodRed BodiesPeople With Apt Names

And the heifers evil of look and thin of flesh, will devour the seven heifers fair of look, and fat. And Pharaoh will awake.

Verse ConceptsFat AnimalsAnimals EatingThin Bodies

And the thin ears will devour the seven ears fat and full. And Pharaoh will awake, and behold, a dream.

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsThin Bodies

And the heifers thin and evil will devour the first seven fat heifers.

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsFat AnimalsAnimals Eating

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

Verse ConceptsWolvesIn The MorningDividing PlunderFierce Men

then will I make to differ on that day, the land of Goshen wherein my people do dwell, so that there shall not be there a gad-fly! in order that thou mayest know, that I, Yahweh, am in the midst of the land;

Verse ConceptsAbominationsFliesGod DifferentiatingI Am The Lord

You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

Only don’t rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land, for we will devour them. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us. Don’t be afraid of them!”

Verse ConceptsImmanuelRebellion, Against GodRebellion Against God, Nature OfGod With YouEasy For PeopleUnguardedDo Not Fear MenRebellion against GodProtection From EnemiesRemoving People From Your Life

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

Verse ConceptsSeparationSeparation From Evil PeopleGod Might Kill His People

So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field.”

Since Balak son of Zippor was Moab’s king at that time,

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyGrassTongueAnimals Eating

A people rise up like a lioness;
They rouse themselves like a lion.
They will not lie down until they devour the prey
and drink the blood of the slain.

Verse ConceptsHuntingDeterminationCreatures Drinking BloodLike CreaturesAnimals Eating

God, who brings him out from Egypt, [is] like the strength of a wild ox for him. He will devour [the] nations [who are] his enemies; he will break their bones; he will pierce [them with] his arrows.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenHorns VictoriousWild OxPeople OvercomingGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptUnicorns

and rewardeth them that hate him before his face so that he bringeth them to nought, and will not defer the time unto him that hateth him but will reward him before his face.

Verse ConceptsHatredHell, As An ExperienceGod Not DelayingGod Will RequiteHating Godhaters

And you shall devour all of the peoples [that] Yahweh your God [is] giving to you; {you shall not pity them}, and you shall not serve their gods, [which] will be a snare for you.

Verse ConceptsTrapEvil TrappingDo Not Have Other godsShow No Mercypity

When thou shalt vow a vow to the LORD thy God, thou shalt not defer to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersdelay, humanOaths, HumanPromises, HumanProcrastinationMaking Vows

"A people whom you don't know will devour what your land and labor produces. You'll be only oppressed and discouraged continuously

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahNot Knowing PeopleThose OppressedAbuseoppression

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

Verse ConceptsLocustsPlanting Seeds

You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.

Verse ConceptsGrapesVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationMaggotsworms

All thy trees, and the fruit of thy ground, shall the grasshopper, devour.

Verse Conceptsbugs

They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

Verse ConceptsOilFamine ComingFamine Will Come

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsLong HairCovered With BloodGod KillingGod Making DrunkGod Will Kill The PeoplesGod's SwordArrows

When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.

Verse ConceptsInsectsMany CombatantsLocustsTentsGrasshoppersUncountable

And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsCedarShadowsBramblesBurning PlantsPerforming The Truth

But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.

Verse ConceptsBurning People

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleEternal Judgement

And David saith unto the messenger, 'Thus dost thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing be evil in thine eyes; for thus and thus doth the sword devour; strengthen thy warfare against the city, and throw it down -- and strengthen thou him.'

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofResigned To DeathEncourage Others!

and the battle is there scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest multiplieth to devour among the people more than those whom the sword hath devoured in that day.

Verse ConceptsBattle

I am a peaceful person, one of the faithful in Israel, but you’re trying to destroy a city that is like a mother in Israel. Why would you devour the Lord’s inheritance?”

Verse ConceptsSpiritual MothersMotherhood

But Joab replied, "No way! No way! I'm not here to devour or destroy!

Verse ConceptsFar Be It!

Then Rizpah daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth, and spread it out for herself, on the rock, from the beginning of harvest, until water poured out upon them from the heavens, - and suffered neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the wild beasts of the field, to devour them by night.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldRainProtection Day And NightWild Beasts SubduedBirds EatingBirdsTragedy

So watch out! I'm going to devour Baasha and his household. I'm going to make your household just like the household of Jeroboam, Nebat's son.

The Lord says this about Jezebel, 'Dogs will devour Jezebel by the outer wall of Jezreel.'

Verse ConceptsEating Corpsesjezebel

And Elijah responded and said unto the captain of fifty, If, then, a man of God, I am, let fire come down out of the heavens, and devour thee and thy fifty. So there came down fire out of the heavens, and devoured him and his fifty.

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

And Elijah responded and said unto them - If, a man of God, I am, let fire come down out of the heavens, and devour thee and thy fifty. And there came down a fire of God, out of the heavens, and devoured him and his fifty.

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

Dogs will devour Jezebel on the plot of ground in Jezreel; she will not be buried.'" Then he opened the door and ran away.

Verse ConceptsdogsAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesNo Burialsjezebel

When they went back and told him, he said, "The Lord's word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, 'In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh.

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfWord Of GodAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesWords To Individuals Fulfilledjezebel

If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTClosing Up

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a particular people that is dispersed and spread among the inhabitants throughout all the provinces of your kingdom whose laws differ from those of all other peoples. Furthermore, they do not observe the king's laws. It is not appropriate for the king to provide a haven for them.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Examples OfDifferent TeachingsBreaking Man's LawThe Law Given To Israel

This one yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, The fire of God. fell from the heavens, and it will burn upon the sheep and upon the young men, and it will devour them; and I shall escape, only I alone, to announce to thee.

Verse ConceptsLightningLossSuffering, Causes OfWeather, God's Sovereignty OverConflagrationsActing AloneBurning PeopleWhile Still Speaking

Then the hungry will devour his harvest, snatching it even from the midst of thorns, while the thirsty covet their wealth.

Verse ConceptsHarvestNot Reaping What You SowOvercoming Obstacles

For the company of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall devour the tents of bribery.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Is SinGodlessnessTentsHypocrisy

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

Verse ConceptsDecaySkinDeath Of A Family Member


“There is nothing left of what he devoured;
Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

Verse ConceptsNot Prospering

All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown by man'shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

Verse ConceptsBurning PeopleThe Outer DarknessOuter Darkness

If our adversaries were not destroyed, and their remnant the fire shall devour.

Verse ConceptsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of Sin

For it is a fire; it will devour even to destruction, and will root out upon all mine increase.

Verse ConceptsHarvestThe DestroyerAdultery


“With fierceness and rage he races to devour the ground,
And he does not stand still at the sound of the [war] trumpet.

Verse ConceptsNot Being StillNot Stilldistance

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is."

Verse ConceptsCreatures Drinking BloodEating Corpses

lest he devour my soul like a lion, and tear it in pieces, while there is none to help.

Verse ConceptsLionsPeople Torn To Pieces

Are all the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? devouring my people as they devour food! Upon Yahweh, have they not called.

Verse ConceptsEating, Metaphorical UseCalling upon GodEvildoersNot PrayingThose Who Were Ignorantatheism

Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesWicked Described AsBurning PeopleGod Will Be Angry

When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh,
my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.

Verse ConceptsStumblingDownfallPeople OvercomingEnemiesProtection From EnemiesEnemy Attacks

They are ready to devour me; they say, "Aha! Aha! We've got you!"

Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsDespising PeopleSeeing Situations

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

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

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Verse ConceptsSilenceGod Appearing In FireThe Second Coming

You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.

Verse ConceptsTongueDeceitful TonguesLoving Evil

Are the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? Devouring my people, as they devour food? Upon God, have they not called.

Verse ConceptsEating, Metaphorical UseCalling upon GodPrayer, Practicalities OfCharacter Of WickedEvildoersNot PrayingThose Who Were Ignorant

Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled on me;
All day long the adversary oppresses and torments me.

Verse ConceptsMusicThose OppressedAll Day

My soul [is] among lions. I lie down [among those who] devour-- the children of humankind whose teeth [are] spears and arrows and whose tongues [are] sharp swords.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfBitingLionsSpeech, Power And Significance OfSuffering, Of Jesus ChristTeethSharpnessEnemies Surrounding

Don't let the current overpower me! Don't let the deep swallow me up! Don't let the pit devour me!

Verse ConceptsPitsSaved From The PitSwampedPits As A Term For GravesOvercomingFloodsBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

He will send forth among them the gad-fly, and they shall devour them; and frogs, and they shall destroy them.

Verse ConceptsFliesFrogsInsectsbugs

The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

Verse ConceptsForestsAnimals, Types OfPigs

And it will devour all the of their land, and it will devour all the fruit of their earth.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Eating

Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit.

Verse ConceptsPitsSheolThe Fact Of DeathPits As A Term For GravesWhilst Alive

A worthless witness will mock justice, and the mouth of the wicked will devour iniquity.

Verse ConceptsWitnesses, False

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Verse ConceptsKnifesKnivesTeethOppressorsRace

The words spoken by the wise are gracious, but the lips of a fool will devour him.

Verse ConceptsFools

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPeace, Human Destruction OfPoverty, Causes OfDestruction Of CountriesBurning CitiesSuffering From ForeignersStrangers in israelAliens

Then shall the sheep eat their appointed fodder; and the rich mens' lands, that were laid waste, shall strangers devour.

Verse ConceptsLambsSheepAnimals Eating

Therefore, as flames of fire devour straw, as dry grass collapses in flames, so their root will be rotten, and their blossom will blow away like dust, because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Verse ConceptseastHand Of GodGod's HandEast And WestGod's Hands Stretched Outsyria

For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

Verse ConceptsForestsBriersDebaucheryThornsFruits Of SinFire Of Evil

And cutteth down on the right, and hath been hungry, And he devoureth on the left, And they have not been satisfied, Each the flesh of his own arm they devour.

Verse ConceptsStomachs

Manasseh shall devour Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandGod's Hands Stretched OutDisunity

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

Verse ConceptsBriersLight, SpiritualThornsShort Time For Action

Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left.

Verse ConceptsFew PeopleGod CursingGuiltThe Earth

LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

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


And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the rich valley,
Will be like the early fig before the summer,
Which one sees,
And as soon as it is in his hand
He [greedily] swallows it [and so will the Assyrians rapidly devour Samaria, Israel’s capital].

Verse ConceptsFig treeHarvestNo BeautyWorse

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

Verse ConceptsSwordsGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesForced Labour

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

Verse ConceptsChaffStrawLight As ChaffFire Of Evil

But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may devour their vilest excretions with you?

Verse ConceptsMonotonyRepulsive FoodDefecationUrinatingpoop

I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfGod, Suffering OfSilenceLabour PainsGod Being Silent

For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfRestraintPunishment, DelayedForbearanceDivine DelaysRestraints From Killing

As for thy land that lieth desolate, wasted and destroyed: it shall be too narrow for them, that shall dwell in it. And they that would devour thee, shall be far away.

Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredFar From Here

In truth, the Lord God will help Me;
who will condemn Me?
Indeed, all of them will wear out like a garment;
a moth will devour them.

Verse ConceptsClothingHelpfulnessInsectsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormPeople Wearing OutNo CondemnationGod Helps

For a moth will eat them like garments; a moth will devour them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for {generation after generation}."

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfClothingGod, Righteousness OfInsectsWoolSalvation, Described AsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormEternal DeliverancePeople Wearing Outclosureworms

Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsHarvestSowing And ReapingA Holy NationMetaphorical FirstfruitsHolinessFirst fruits

Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

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

"They'll devour your harvest and your food. They'll devour your sons and your daughters. They'll devour your vines and your fig trees. With their swords they'll batter down your 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 snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: the whole land trembleth at the sound of the neighing of his steeds, and they come, and devour the land, and all it contains, the city and those that dwell therein.

Verse ConceptsNosesNeighing And Braying

Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Figurative UseBirds, Types Of BirdsAnimals Eating PeopleBirds Of PreyBlemished CreaturesBirds