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kon -sūm ´ (אכל( � , 'ākhal , כּלה , kālāh , תּמם , tāmam ; ἀναλίσκω , analı́skō ): In Old Testament 'ākhal ("to eat," "devour") occurs very frequently, and is translated "consumed" (Genesis 31:40; Exodus 15:7; Psalm 78:63 , etc.); kālāh ("to finish") is also frequently translated "consume," "consumed" (Genesis 41:30; Exodus 32:10; Psalm 59:13 , etc.); tāmam , "to be perfect," "finished" (Numbers 17:13; Deuteronomy 2:15; Psalm 73:19 , etc.). There are many other words translated "consume" and "consumed," e.g. ṣūph , "to end" (Jeremiah 8:13; Dan 1:44; Zephaniah 1:2 , Zephaniah 1:3 ); bālāh , "to fade," "wear away" (Job 13:28; Psalm 49:14 ); gāzal , implying violence (Job 24:19 ); ṣāphāh , "to end" (Genesis 19:15 , Genesis 19:17; Isaiah 7:20 , etc.); ‛āshēsh , "to be old" (Psalm 6:7; Psalm 31:9 , Psalm 31:10 the King James Version); māḳaḳ , "to become completed" (Ezekiel 4:17; Zechariah 14:12 bis ); ‛āsāh kālāh is rendered "utterly consume" (Nehemiah 9:31 ); analiskō , "to use up," occurs in Luke 9:54; Galatians 5:15; 2 Thessalonians 2:8 (the King James Version); dapanáō , "to spend," is translated "consume" in James 4:3 (the Revised Version (British and American) "spend"); katanalı́skō , "to consume utterly," occurs only in Hebrews 12:29; "for our God is a consuming fire."

In the Revised Version (British and American) "devour," "devoured" are several times substituted for "consume," "consumed," e.g. Job 20:26; Jeremiah 49:27; Numbers 16:35; "boil well" (Ezekiel 24:10 ); for "be consumed with dying" (Numbers 17:13 ), "perish all of us"; "consume" is substituted for "corrupt" in Matthew 6:19; "my spirit is consumed," for "my breath is corrupt" (Job 17:1 ); instead of "the flame consumeth the chaff" (Isaiah 5:24 ) we have "as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame"; and for "whom the Lord shall consume" (2 Thessalonians 2:8 ), the Revised Version (British and American) reads (after a different text) "whom the Lord Jesus shall slay," "consume" in the American Revised Version, margin.