'Devours' in the Bible

Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying, "The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature.

So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, "Now this mass of people will lick up everything around us, as the bull devours the grass of the field. Now Balak son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at this time.

It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.

For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.

You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the Lord angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.

A crooked witness scorns justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

There is desirable treasure and olive oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish person devours all he has.

Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.

So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people.