22 occurrences

'Swallow' in the Bible

But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

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

And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

Verse ConceptsShoutingSwallowingIsrael Fleeing

I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

Verse ConceptsSpiritual MothersMotherhood

And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

Verse ConceptsFar Be It!

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Verse ConceptsSalivaGod Seeing All PeopleLeave Us Alone

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

Verse ConceptsDrawbacks To Riches

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

{To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.} Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

Verse ConceptsMusicThose OppressedAll Day

Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfMany EnemiesAll DayEnemy Attacksharassment

He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

Verse ConceptsGod Saving From EnemiesPsalm InterjectionsGod's Truthrebukingharassment

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Verse ConceptsPitsSaved From The PitSwampedPits As A Term For GravesOvercomingFloodsBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Verse ConceptsNestsHomeKnowing God, Effects OfBirds, Types Of BirdsSparrowsSwallowsBirdsconnection

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Verse ConceptsPitsSheolThe Fact Of DeathPits As A Term For GravesWhilst Alive

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsSwallowsSparrowsThose FlyingBirdsflyingcurseswandering

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Verse ConceptsFools

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Verse ConceptsDeath, DefeatedDeath, Of Believerseternal life, nature ofMortalityPower, God's SavingRest, EternalResurrectionWhat Heaven Will Be LikeMessianic PropheciesTearsDestruction Of Satan's WorksOvercoming DeathGod Will ComfortNot MourningDeathAbolishing Death

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Verse ConceptsdovesdiscouragementPrayer In DiscouragementSwallowsCauses of failure in

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsdovesSkyThe Right TimeBirds, Features OfBirds, Types Of BirdsInstinctSwallowsAutumnKnowingGod's TimingGods Timing

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstDebaucherySowing And ReapingUnfruitfulnessWeather, As God's JudgmentWhirlwindsWindFruits Of SinReapingNot Reaping What You SowSuffering From ForeignersHurricanesReaping What You Sowsowing

For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

Verse ConceptsPeople Passing Away

Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Verse ConceptsGod's Activity In Human LifeFishesAnimal LifeTypes Of ChristGod Appointing OthersThree Days And NightsBad LuckDaysPreparationFishcredibilityjonah

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Accept (176 instances)
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Root Form
Definition
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καταπίνω 
Katapino 
Usage: 6

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