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# devour — English to Ukrainian

How English *devour* is translated into Ukrainian in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [devour in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/devour/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: devour (57), devours (10). By style: everyday 1 · biblical 66.

## пожере

Used about 30 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 30). Forms: пожерати, пожере.

- but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will **devour** its palaces.
  Я пошлю огонь між мури в Газї, нехай **пожере** її палати.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · AMO 1:7)

- but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will **devour** the palaces of Bozrah.”
  Я пошлю огонь на Теман, нехай **пожере** в Босрі будівлї.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · AMO 1:12)

- but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will **devour** its palaces.”
  Я пошлю огонь у його мури, нехай **пожере** його будівлї.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · AMO 1:10)

- but I will send a fire on Judah, and it will **devour** the palaces of Jerusalem.”
  Я пошлю огонь на Юду, й **пожере** він палати в Ерусалимі.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · AMO 2:5)

- but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it will **devour** the palaces of Ben Hadad.
  Пошлю огонь на дом Азаїлів, і **пожере** він палати в Бенадада.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · AMO 1:4)

## огонь

Used about 7 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 7).

- Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may **devour** your cedars.
  Відчиняй, Ливане, ворота твої, й нехай пожирає **огонь** кедри твої.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 11:1)

- Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire **devours** before him. It is very stormy around him.
  Бог наш прийде, і не буде мовчати; перед ним **огонь** пожираючий, кругом него сильна буря.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 50:3)

- All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will **devour** him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.
  Вся темнота скрита в нутрі в його; його пожирати ме **огонь**, нїким не роздуваний; нещастє постигне й все те, що зістане в наметї його.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 20:26)

- He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which **devours** all around.
  В гнїві палкому посчибав всї роги в Ізраїлї, відвів перед ворогом правицю свою на бік, і запалив у Якові, наче горючий **огонь**, що все кругом пожерав.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 2:3)

- A fire **devours** before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
  Поперед його — **огонь** пожераючий, а позад його — поломє палаюче; поперед його земля, мов би сад Едемський, а позад його — пустиня порожня, і нїкому не буде рятунку від його.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOE 2:3)

## меч

Used about 3 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 3).

- Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of the LORD **devours** from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.
  На всї гори в пустинї понабігали пустошники, бо **меч** Господень пожерає все від конця до конця землї: нема рятунку нїодній людинї.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 12:12)

- Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword **devours** one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
  І каже Давид посланцеві: Скажи так Йоабові: Не журись, бо **меч** пожерає то сього то того; бий сьміливо на город і зруйнуй його, та так підійми йому духа.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 11:25)

- “You, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘The Lord GOD says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: “A sword! A sword is drawn! It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to **devour**, that it may be as lightning;
  А тепер, сину чоловічий, пророкуй і промов: Так говорить Господь Бог про Аммонїї і насьміхи їх, і скажи: **Меч**, меч уже добутий на вбиваннє, вичищений до затрачування, щоб блищав блискавицею, —
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 21:28)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- I will **devour** you little girl.
  Я проковтну тебе, маленька дівчинко.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by exodream and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#366332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/366332) [\#6482684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6482684))

- who **devour** widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
  що жеруть доми вдовиць, і для виду довго молять ся. Сї приймуть ще тяжчий осуд.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:47)

- You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to **devour** the wretched in secret.
  Ти пробив його ж списами голови гетьманів його, коли вони примчались бурею, щоб мене розбити, й радувались, як той, що надїється, бідолаху в тайному місцї пожерти.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HAB 3:14)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [Ukrainian grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/uk/) · [translating between English and Ukrainian](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-uk/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into Ukrainian](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-uk/).

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