Consumption
Bible Usage:
- consumption used 5 times.
- First Reference: Leviticus 26:16
- Last Reference: Isaiah 28:22
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
Naves Topical Index
Consumption
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Consumption
CONSUMPTION, noun [Latin See Consume.]
1. The act of consuming; waste; destruction by burning, eating, devouring, scattering, dissipation, slow decay, or by passing away, as time; as the consumption of fuel, of food, of commodities or estate, of time, etc.
2. The state of being wasted, or diminished.
Etna and Vesuvius have not suffered any considerable diminution or consumption
3. In medicine, a wasting of flesh; a gradual decay or diminution of the body; a word of extensive signification. But particularly, the disease called phthisis pulmonalis, pulmonic consumption a disease seated in the lungs, attended with hectic fever, cough, etc.