Hebrew

To consume

חָסַלStrong’s H2628

chasal (cha-sal)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Chasal is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will consume it”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.”

Meaning

How it's translated

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

Where it's used most

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

חָסַל chasal · to consume

(Qal) to consume, finish off, bring to an end

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

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.]

To destroy, by separating the parts of a thing, by decomposition, as by fire, or eating, devouring, and annihilating the form of a substance.
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
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
To cause to disappear; to waste slowly.“My flesh is consumed away” Job 33:21

All definitions and other forms of “consume”

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.

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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.