ἀναλίσκω
to consume
‘to consume’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G355 appears in the Book of Galatians — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Galatians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
αναλισκω (analískō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to consume.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Luke dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. It first appears in Luke 9:54. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G355 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%
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: Consume 1×, Consumed 1×, Shall consume 1×
- American Standard Version: Consume 1×, Consumed 1×, Jesus shall slay 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Consume 1×, You will be consumed 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be consumed 1×, Consume 1×, You might 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G355 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G355 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G355 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G355 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- to consume, e.g. spend money
- to consume, use up, destroy
Word origin
Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G355 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀναλωθῆτε analōthē̂te | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural | Galatians 5:15 | 1 |
| ἀναλῶσαι analō̂sai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Luke 9:54 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G355, 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
- αναβαινω anabaínō G305 to ascend
- αναβαλλομαι anabállomai G306 to delay
- αναβιβαζω anabibázō G307 to draw up
- αναβλεπω anablépō G308 to look up
- αναβοαω anaboáō G310 to cry out
- αναγγελλω anangéllō G312 to announce
- αναγενναω anagennáō G313 to be born again
- αναγινωσκω anaginṓskō G314 to recognize
- αναγκη anánkē G318 necessity
- αναγνωριζομαι anagnōrízomai G319 to recognize
- αναγω anágō G321 to lead up
- αναδεικνυμι anadeíknymi G322 to proclaim
- αναδεχομαι anadéchomai G324 to take up
- αναδιδωμι anadídōmi G325 to give forth
- αναζαω anazáō G326 to live again
- αναζητεω anazētéō G327 to search out
- αναζωννυμι anazṓnnymi G328 to gird up
- αναζωπυρεω anazōpyréō G329 to inflame
- αναθαλλω anathállō G330 to sprout up
- αναθεωρεω anatheōréō G333 to observe
- αναιρεω anairéō G337 to take away
- ανακαθιζω anakathízō G339 to sit up
- ανακαινιζω anakainízō G340 to renew
- ανακαινοω anakainóō G341 to make new
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 77 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αναλισκω appears 52 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 50 verses in 16 books.
- 52
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 50
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 41:30 ἀναἁλίσκω
- Exodus 32:12 ἀναἁλίσκω
- Leviticus 6:3 ἀναἁλίσκω
- Numbers 14:33 ἀναἁλίσκω
- Deuteronomy 2:15 ἀναἁλίσκω
- Joshua 24:20 ἀναἁλίσκω
- 1 Chronicles 21:26 ἀναἁλίσκω
- Proverbs 23:28 ἀναἁλίσκω
- Isaiah 32:10 ἀναἁλίσκω
- Jeremiah 3:24 ἀναἁλίσκω
- Lamentations 3:66 ἀναἁλίσκω
- Ezekiel 5:12 ἀναἁλίσκω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G355) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 41:30 ἀναἁλίσκω There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
- Exodus 32:12 ἀναἁλίσκω Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.
- Exodus 33:3 ἀναἁλίσκω to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."
- Exodus 33:5 ἀναἁλίσκω Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you."
- Leviticus 6:3 ἀναἁλίσκω or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;
- Leviticus 26:22 ἀναἁλίσκω I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.
- Leviticus 26:33 ἀναἁλίσκω I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
- Leviticus 26:44 ἀναἁλίσκω Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;
- Numbers 14:33 ἀναἁλίσκω Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:35 ἀναἁλίσκω I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
- Numbers 16:21 ἀναἁλίσκω Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
- Numbers 17:10 ἀναἁλίσκω Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die.
- Numbers 17:27 ἀναἁλίσκω
- Numbers 25:11 ἀναἁλίσκω Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
- Numbers 32:13 ἀναἁλίσκω Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed.
- Deuteronomy 2:15 ἀναἁλίσκω Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
- Deuteronomy 4:24 ἀναἁλίσκω For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
- Deuteronomy 5:25 ἀναἁλίσκω Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die.
- Deuteronomy 7:22 ἀναἁλίσκω Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
- Deuteronomy 9:3 ἀναἁλίσκω Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so shall you drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
- Deuteronomy 9:4 ἀναἁλίσκω Don't speak in your heart, after that Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive them out from before you.
- Deuteronomy 28:21 ἀναἁλίσκω Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 28:42 ἀναἁλίσκω All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
- Joshua 24:20 ἀναἁλίσκω If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he has done you good.
- 1 Chronicles 21:26 ἀναἁλίσκω David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
- Proverbs 23:28 ἀναἁλίσκω Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, And increases the unfaithful among men.
- Proverbs 24:22 ἀναἁλίσκω For their calamity will rise suddenly; The destruction from them both--who knows?
- Proverbs 30:14 ἀναἁλίσκω There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, And their jaws like knives, To devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
- Isaiah 32:10 ἀναἁλίσκω For days beyond a year shall you be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the harvest shall not come.
- Isaiah 59:14 ἀναἁλίσκω Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.
- Isaiah 66:17 ἀναἁλίσκω Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 3:24 ἀναἁλίσκω But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
- Jeremiah 9:15 ἀναἁλίσκω therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
- Jeremiah 10:25 ἀναἁλίσκω Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, and on the families that don't call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
- Jeremiah 25:17 ἀναἁλίσκω Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:
- Jeremiah 27:7 ἀναἁλίσκω All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.
- Lamentations 3:66 ἀναἁλίσκω You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 5:12 ἀναἁλίσκω A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
- Ezekiel 15:4 ἀναἁλίσκω Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?
- Ezekiel 15:5 ἀναἁλίσκω Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work!
- Ezekiel 19:12 ἀναἁλίσκω But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
- Ezekiel 20:13 ἀναἁλίσκω But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
- Ezekiel 35:15 ἀναἁλίσκω As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Daniel 11:26 ἀναἁλίσκω Yes, they who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.
- Joel 1:19 ἀναἁλίσκω Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, And the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
- Joel 2:3 ἀναἁλίσκω A fire devours before them, And behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
- Zephaniah 1:18 ἀναἁλίσκω Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
- Zephaniah 3:8 ἀναἁλίσκω "Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
- Zechariah 9:4 ἀναἁλίσκω Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, And he will strike her power in the sea; And she will be devoured with fire.
- Zechariah 9:15 ἀναἁλίσκω Yahweh of Hosts will defend them; And they will destroy and overcome with sling-stones; And they will drink, and roar as through wine; And they will be filled like bowls, Like the corners of the altar.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G355) 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.
