◄ 2719. katesthió ►
Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2719: καταφάγω καταφάγω, see κατεσθίω. STRONGS NT 2719: κατεσθίω κατεσθίω, participle plural κατεσθοντες (Mark 12:40 Tr WH; see ἐσθίω and ἔσθω; cf. Fritzsche, Hdbch. z. d. Apokryphen, i., p. 150 (who says, 'The shorter form occurs frequently in the Sept., Leviticus 19:26; Sir. 20:15 (16), elsewhere almost exclusively poetic; see Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Sprachl. ii., p. 185' (cf. Veitch, under the word, ἐσθίω))); future καταφάγομαι (John 2:17 G L T Tr WH; see ἐσθίω); 2 aorist κατέφαγον; the Sept. for אָכַל; 1. properly, to consume by eating, to eat up, devour: τί, of birds, Matthew 13:4; Mark 4:4; Luke 8:5; of a dragon, Revelation 12:4; of a man, eating up the little book, i. e. eagerly taking its entire contents into his inmost soul, and, as we say, digesting it (borrowed from the figure in Ezekiel 2:10; Ezekiel 3:1-3, cf. Jeremiah 15:16): Revelation 10:9f. 2. Metaphorically, in various uses; a. to devour i. e. squander, waste, substance: Luke 15:30 (often so in Greek writings from Homer, Odyssey 3, 315; 15, 12 down;devorare patrimonium, Catull. 29, 23). b. to devour i. e. forcibly appropriate: τάς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν, widows' property, Matthew 23:14-13Rec.; Mark 12:40 (cf. Buttmann, 79 (69); Winer's Grammar, § 29, 2); Luke 20:47. c. with an accusative of the person α. to strip one of his goods: 2 Corinthians 11:20. β. to ruin (by the infliction of injuries): Galatians 5:15. d. of fire, to devour i. e. utterly consume, destroy: τινα, Revelation 11:5; Revelation 20:9. e. of the consumption of the strength of body and mind by strong emotions: τινα, John 2:17 (Psalm 68:10 (); Josephus, Antiquities 7, 8, 1). Forms and Transliterations καταφαγε κατάφαγε καταφαγείν καταφαγεται καταφάγεται καταφάγεταί καταφαγέτω καταφαγη καταφάγη καταφάγῃ καταφάγοι καταφάγοισαν καταφάγονται καταφαγων καταφαγών κατέδεσθε κατεδέται κατέδεται κατέδονται κατέσθετε κατέσθη κατεσθιει κατεσθίει κατεσθιετε κατεσθίετε κατεσθιέτωσαν κατεσθίοντας κατεσθίοντες κατεσθίουσα κατεσθιούσης κατεσθίουσι κατεσθιουσιν κατεσθίουσιν κατεσθοντες κατέσθοντες κατέσθουσα κατευθύ κατέφαγε κατέφαγέ κατεφαγεν κατέφαγεν κατεφαγον κατέφαγον κατήσθιεν φαγε kataphage kataphagē katáphage kataphágei kataphágēi kataphagetai kataphágetaí kataphagon kataphagōn kataphagṓn katephagen katéphagen katephagon katéphagon katesthiei katesthíei katesthiete katesthíete katesthiontes katesthíontes katesthiousin katesthíousin Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts