'Swallow' in the Bible

and Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

All Israel who were around them fled at their outcry, for they said, “The earth may swallow us up!”

I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You are seeking to destroy a city, even a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?”

Joab replied, “Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy!

“Will You never turn Your gaze away from me,Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

“He returns what he has attainedAnd cannot swallow it;As to the riches of his trading,He cannot even enjoy them.

You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger;The Lord will swallow them up in His wrath,And fire will devour them.

May the flood of water not overflow meNor the deep swallow me up,Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.

The bird also has found a house,And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,Even Your altars, O Lord of hosts,My King and my God.

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,So a curse without cause does not alight.

And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples,Even the veil which is stretched over all nations.

He will swallow up death for all time,And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces,And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;For the Lord has spoken.

“Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter;I moan like a dove;My eyes look wistfully to the heights;O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

For they sow the windAnd they reap the whirlwind.The standing grain has no heads;It yields no grain.Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

“Because just as you drank on My holy mountain,All the nations will drink continually.They will drink and swallowAnd become as if they had never existed.

And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

Your eyes are too pure to approve evil,And You can not look on wickedness with favor.Why do You look with favorOn those who deal treacherously?Why are You silent when the wicked swallow upThose more righteous than they?

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!