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  • verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of devour

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devour + -eth

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Examples

  • Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Jo'ab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

    2 Samuel 11. 1999

  • Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

    The Bible, King James version, Book 10: 2 Samuel Anonymous

  • Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

    New Etext of Bible [King James Version]

  • Tahpanhes; say, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword devoureth round about thee.

    The Holy Bible: Darby Translation Anonymous 1867

  • "` The sword devoureth one as well as another, '" was her reply.

    Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • 25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721

  • A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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