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To consume

ἀναλίσκωStrong’s G0355

analiskō

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Analiskō is the Greek word usually translated “consume” and “may be consumed”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?”
Luke 9:54 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “consume” and “may be consumed”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • to consume 1
  • you may be consumed 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1
  • Galatians 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

ἀναλίσκω analiskō · to consume

ἀν-αλίσκω (on the etymology, see MM, VGT, see word), [in LXX chiefly for אָכַל also for כָּלָה, etc. ;] 1. to expend. 2. to consume, destroy: Luk.9:54, Gal.5:15, 2Th.2:8, Rec. WH, mg.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “consume” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CONSUME, verb transitive

[Latin, to take. So in English we say, it takes up time, that is, it consumes time.]

  1. To destroy, by separating the parts of a thing, by decomposition, as by fire, or eating, devouring, and annihilating the form of a substance.
  2. To destroy by dissipating or by use; to expend; to waste; to squander; as, to consume an estate.“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts” James 4:3
  3. To spend; to cause to pass away, as time; as, to consume the day in idleness.“Their days did he consume in vanity” Psalms 78:33
  4. To cause to disappear; to waste slowly.“My flesh is consumed away” Job 33:21
All definitions and other forms of “consume”
  1. To destroy; to bring to utter ruin; to exterminate.“Let me alone-- that I may consume them” Exodus 32:10

CONSUME, verb intransitive

To waste away slowly; to be exhausted.

  1. “The wicked shall perish--they shall consume” Psalms 37:20

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.