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κατεσθίω

to devour

‘to devour’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G2719 Strong's Greek
katesthíō Transliteration
/kat-es-thee'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 14 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek verb κατεσθιω centers on the idea of “to devour.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 13:4. The Greek New Testament uses it across 14 verses — uncommon. Revelation dominates its distribution — 5 of 14 verses. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
devour
Modern gloss
to devour
Strong's 1890 agrees
Strong's 1890 and current Thayer scholarship align on this entry's primary sense — a good signal that the gloss above is unambiguous and stable. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G2719 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

14
distinct verses
The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
7 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 13:4
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 13:4.
Revelation 20:9
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 20:9.
#814
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 7 · 50%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 2 · 14%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 5 · 36%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 7 verses · 50%
  • Johannine 6 verses · 43%
  • Revelation 5 verses · 36%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 21%
  • Pauline corpus 2 verses · 14%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Devour 5×, Up 5×, Devoured 4×
  • American Standard Version: Devoured 4×, Devour 3×, Up 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Devoured 3×, Defraud 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Devoured 4×, Devouring 2×, Devours 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2719 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Devour” 5×
  • “Up” 5×
  • “Devoured” 4×

Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2719 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Devoured” 4×
  • “Devour” 3×
  • “Up” 3×
  • “Devoureth” 2×

Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2719 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Devoured” 3×
  • “Defraud” 2×

Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2719 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Devoured” 4×
  • “Devouring” 2×
  • “Devours” 2×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to consume by eating, to eat up, devour
  2. metaph.

Word origin

Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.

Part of speech: Verb

From G2596 and G2068 (including its alternate); to eat down that is devour (literally or figuratively): - devour.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 10 distinct written forms G2719 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
κατέφαγεν katéphagen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 13:4 4
κατεσθίει katesthíei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 Corinthians 11:20 2
κατάφαγε katáphage Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Revelation 10:9 1
κατέφαγον katéphagon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Revelation 10:10 1
καταφάγεταί kataphágetaí Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 2:17 1
καταφάγῃ kataphágē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 12:4 1
καταφαγών kataphagṓn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 15:30 1
κατεσθίετε katesthíete Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Galatians 5:15 1
κατεσθίοντες katesthíontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Mark 12:40 1
κατεσθίουσιν katesthíousin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 20:47 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2719, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

+103 more words share this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 129 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word κατεσθιω appears 141 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 127 verses in 25 books.

141
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
127
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
25 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 25 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2719) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 127. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2719) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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