κατεσθίω

κατεσθίω — katesthíō

καταφάγω, see κατεσθίω.

STRONGS NT 2719: κατεσθίωκατεσθίω, participle plural κατεσθοντες (Mar 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., Lev 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 (Joh 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, Mat 13:4; Mar 4:4; Luk 8:5; of a dragon, Rev 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 Eze 2:10; Eze 3:1-3, cf. Jer 15:16): Rev 10:9 f.

2. Metaphorically, in various uses;

a. to devour i. e. squander, waste, substance: Luk 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.; Mar 12:40 (cf. Buttmann, 79 (69); Winer's Grammar, § 29, 2); Luk 20:47.

c. with an accusative of the person α. to strip one of his goods: 2Co 11:20. β. to ruin (by the infliction of injuries): Gal 5:15.

d. of fire, to devour i. e. utterly consume, destroy: τινα, Rev 11:5; Rev 20:9.

e. of the consumption of the strength of body and mind by strong emotions: τινα, Joh 2:17 (Psa 68:10; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 8, 1).