Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'devour' occurs 80 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'devour' in the standard works and contain 5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 18:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 63 65 128
Gen. 1 5 6
Ex. 0 1 1
Lev. 0 1 1
Num. 0 1 1
Deut. 1 2 3
Judg. 3 0 3
2 Sam. 1 4 5
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 3 5 8
Prov. 1 2 3
Isa. 9 7 16
Jer. 12 8 20
Lam. 0 2 2
Ezek. 7 11 18
Dan. 2 2 4
Hosea 4 2 6
Joel 0 4 4
Amos 8 2 10
Obad. 1 0 1
Nahum 3 1 4
Hab. 1 1 2
Zeph. 0 2 2
Zech. 3 1 4
Mal. 0 1 1
NT 8 6 14
BM 8 8 16
DC 1 2 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 80 81 161

Isa. 1:7
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Isa. 9:12
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isa. 9:18
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

Isa. 10:17
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

Isa. 26:11
Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

Isa. 31:8
Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

Isa. 33:11
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

Isa. 42:14
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

Isa. 56:9
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.