κατεσθίω

katesqivw katesqivw, participle plural
katesqonte" ( Tr WH; see
ejsqivw and
e[sqw; cf. Fritzsche, Hdbch. z. d. Apokryphen, i., p. 150 (who says, `The shorter form occurs frequently in the Septuagint, ; (16), elsewhere almost exclusively poetic; see Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Sprachl. ii., p. 185' (cf. Veitch, under the word,
ejsqivw))); future
katafavgomai ( G L T Tr WH; see
ejsqivw); 2 aorist
katevfagon; the Septuagint for lk'a;;1. properly, to consume by eating, to eat up, devour:
tiv, of birds, ; ; ; of a dragon, ; 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 ; , cf. ): Rev, f.2. Metaphorically, in various uses; a. to devour i. e. squander, waste, substance: (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:
tav"
oijkiva"
tw'n
chrw'n, widows' property, (13) Rec.; (cf. Buttmann, 79 (69); Winer's Grammar, sec. 29, 2); . c. with an accusative of the person
a. to strip one of his goods: .
b. to ruin (by the infliction of injuries): . d. of fire, to devour i. e. utterly consume, destroy:
tina, ; . e. of the consumption of the strength of body and mind by strong emotions:
tina, ( (); Josephus, Antiquities 7, 8, 1).*