G2719 – katesthio – κατεσθίω – devour

Strong’s ID:
G2719
Greek Word:
κατεσθίω
Transliteration:
katesthio
Pronunciation:
kat-es-thee’-o
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage Count:
15
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Find “katesthio” in the Bible (New Testament)

Strong’s Greek Lexicon

from and (including its alternate); to eat down, i.e. devour (literally or figuratively):—devour.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) to consume by eating, to eat up, devour
1a) of birds
1b) of a dragon
1c) of a man eating up the little book
2) metaphorically
2a) to devour, i.e. squander, waste: substance
2b) to devour, i.e. forcibly appropriate: widows’ property
2c) to strip one of his goods
1c1) to ruin (by the infliction of injuries)
2d) by fire, to devour, i.e. to utterly consume, destroy
2e) of the consumption of the strength of body and mind by strong emotions

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.