1 | Strong's Number: g355 | Greek: analisko |
Consume:
"to use up, spend up, especially in a bad sense, to destroy," is said of the destruction of persons,
(a) literally, Luk 9:54 and the RV marg. of 2Th 2:8 (text, "shall slay");
(b) metaphorically, Gal 5:15 "(that) ye be not consumed (one of another)."
2 | Strong's Number: g2654 | Greek: katanalisko |
Consume:
"to consume utterly, wholly" (kata, intensive), is said, in Hbr 12:29, of God as "a consuming fire."
3 | Strong's Number: g853 | Greek: aphanizo |
Consume:
lit., "to cause to disappear, put out of sight," came to mean "to do away with" (a, negative, phaino, "to cause to appear"), said of the destructive work of moth and rust, Mat 6:19, 20 (RV, "consume," AV, "corrupt").
See CORRUPT, DISFIGURE, PERISH, VANISH.
Note: Dapanao, "to expend, be at an expense," is translated "consume" in the AV of Jam 4:3 (RV, "spend").
See SPEND.
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