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Swallowed
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The term "swallowed" in the Bible often conveys the idea of being consumed or overwhelmed, both in a literal and metaphorical sense. It appears in various contexts, illustrating God's power, judgment, and the consequences of sin.

1.Divine Judgment and Deliverance: One of the most dramatic instances of being "swallowed" occurs in the account of Korah's rebellion against Moses and Aaron. InNumbers 16:32 , it is recorded, "And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah’s men and all their possessions." This event serves as a powerful demonstration of God's judgment against rebellion and disobedience. The earth swallowing the rebels signifies the finality and severity of divine retribution.

2.Jonah and the Great Fish: The prophet Jonah's experience is another significant biblical narrative involving being swallowed.Jonah 1:17 states, "Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish." This event highlights themes of repentance and divine mercy. Jonah's time inside the fish represents a period of reflection and transformation, leading to his eventual obedience to God's command.

3.Metaphorical Usage: The concept of being swallowed is also used metaphorically in Scripture to describe overwhelming situations or emotions. InPsalm 124:3 , the psalmist reflects on God's deliverance, saying, "then they would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger." Here, the imagery of being swallowed alive conveys the intensity of the threat faced by the psalmist and the miraculous nature of God's protection.

4.Prophetic Imagery: The prophets often use the imagery of swallowing to depict the destruction of nations or the consuming nature of sin. InJeremiah 51:34 , Babylon is described as a devourer: "Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has set me aside like an empty vessel. He has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out." This vivid language underscores the totality of Babylon's conquest and the subsequent judgment that awaits it.

5.New Testament References: In the New Testament, the concept of being swallowed is used to describe the ultimate victory over death. In1 Corinthians 15:54 , Paul writes, "When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: 'Death has been swallowed up in victory.'" This passage emphasizes the triumph of Christ over death, offering hope and assurance of eternal life to believers.

The theme of being swallowed in the Bible serves as a multifaceted symbol of God's power, the consequences of sin, and the hope of redemption. Whether through literal events or metaphorical expressions, it underscores the reality of divine justice and mercy.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(imp. & p. p.) of Swallow.
Greek
2666. katapino -- to drink down
... Word Origin from kata and pino Definition to drink down NASB Word Usage devour
(1), drank (1), drowned (1), overwhelmed (1), swallow (1),swallowed (2)....
Strong's Hebrew
1105. bela -- a swallowing, devouring, a thingswallowed
... 1104, 1105. bela. 1106 . a swallowing, devouring, a thingswallowed.
Transliteration: bela Phonetic Spelling: (beh'-lah) Short Definition: devour....

1104. bala -- to swallow down, swallow up, engulf
... bala. 1105 . to swallow down, swallow up, engulf. Transliteration: bala Phonetic
Spelling: (baw-lah') Short Definition:swallowed. Word Origin a prim....

Library

FailureSwallowed by victory.
... The Coming Victory FailureSwallowed by Victory. But God's failures are only for
a while. They are real. There is the tragic element in them....

DeathSwallowed up of Life Meaning of this Phrase in Relation to...
... Chapter LIV."DeathSwallowed Up of Life Meaning of This Phrase in Relation
to the Resurrection of the Body. Then, again, questions...

DeathSwallowed up in victory
... Sermon XLIII DeathSwallowed Up in Victory. DeathSwallowed Up in Victory I
Corinthians 15:54. Then... written,. Death isswallowed up in victory!...

BeingSwallowed up Therefore in the Miserable Gulf of Idle Talk...
... THE THIRD CENTURY 14 Beingswallowed up therefore in the miserable gulf of idle
talk and worthless vanities. Beingswallowed up therefore...

And Again Paul Says: "That Mortality Might beSwallowed up of Life...
... Section XXI. And again Paul says: "That mortality might beswallowed up of life.?
And again Paul says: "That mortality might beswallowed up of life....

But Sight Shall Displace Faith; and Hope Shall beSwallowed up in...
... BOOK I. Chapter 42. But sight shall displace faith; and hope shall be
swallowed up in that perfect? 42. But sight shall displace...

But Unbelievers Cry, "How Can the Flesh, which Has Been Putrified...
... But unbelievers cry, "How can the flesh, which has been putrified and dissolved,
or changed into dust, sometimes alsoswallowed up by the sea, and dispersed by...

Death Changes, Without Destroying, Our Mortal Bodies Remains of...
... in this tabernacle, which we do not wish indeed to be stripped of, but rather to
be in it clothed over, in such a way that mortality may beswallowed up of life...

The Sting of Death, What?
... shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal immortality, then," he added, "shall
be brought to pass the saying which is written, Death isswallowed up in...

Psalm CXXIV.
... "Perchance they hadswallowed us up quick" (ver.3). "Swallowed us up:" [5463]
they would not first have slain us, and so haveswallowed us up....

Thesaurus
Swallowed (43 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Swallow. Multi-Version Concordance
Swallowed (43 Occurrences). 1 Corinthians 15:54 But when...

Dathan (8 Occurrences)
... Welled; belonging to a fountain, a son of Eliab, a Reubenite, who joined Korah
(qv) in his conspiracy, and with his accomplices wasswallowed up by an...

Abiram (9 Occurrences)
... He and all the conspirators, with their families and possessions (except the children
of Korah), wereswallowed up by an earthquake (Numbers 16:1-27; 26:9...

Swallow (38 Occurrences)
... (n.) As much as is, or can be,swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.... Genesis
41:7 The thin heads of grainswallowed up the seven healthy and full ears....

Strongholds (44 Occurrences)
... Lamentations 2:2 The Lord hasswallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has
not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of...

Korah (51 Occurrences)
... sons, and their little children," and it came to pass "that the ground clave asunder
that was under them; and the earth opened her mouth andswallowed them up...

Thin (39 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Genesis 41:7 The thin heads
of grainswallowed up the seven healthy and full ears....

Moaning (9 Occurrences)
... Lamentations 2:5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he hathswallowed up Israel; He
hathswallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he...

Multiplieth (13 Occurrences)
... Lamentations 2:5 The Lord hath been as an enemy, He hathswallowed up Israel, He
hathswallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed His fortresses, And He...

Mortality (3 Occurrences)
... when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put
on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death isswallowed up in...

Resources
Was Jonah truly swallowed by a whale? | GotQuestions.org

Who was Korah in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

What is the difference between miracles and magic? | GotQuestions.org

Swallowed: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Swallowed (43 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 15:54
But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death isswallowed up in victory."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 2:7
so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should beswallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

2 Corinthians 5:4
For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may beswallowed up by life.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 11:29
By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they wereswallowed up.
(WEB WEY ASV DBY YLT)

Revelation 12:16
The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth andswallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Genesis 41:7
The thin heads of grainswallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 41:24
The thin heads of grainswallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 7:12
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rodswallowed up their rods.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 15:12
You stretched out your right hand. The earthswallowed them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 4:20
and they go not in to see when the holy thing isswallowed, that they have died.'
(YLT)

Numbers 16:30
and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth andswallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol -- then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.'
(YLT)

Numbers 16:32
and the earth opened its mouth, andswallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 26:10
and the earth opened its mouth, andswallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 11:6
and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, andswallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 17:16
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying,'Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king beswallowed up, and all the people who are with him.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designingswallowed their wealth.
(YLT)

Job 6:3
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words areswallowed up.
(KJV WBS)

Job 20:15
He hasswallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NIV)

Job 37:20
Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he wereswallowed up?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 35:25
Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We haveswallowed him up!"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 56:1
To the Overseer. -- 'On the Dumb Dove far off.' -- A secret treasure of David, in the Philistines' taking hold of him in Gath. Favour me, O God, for manswallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresseth me,
(YLT)

Psalms 56:2
Mine enemies haveswallowed up all the day, For many 'are' fighting against me, O most High,
(YLT)

Psalms 106:17
The earth opened andswallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 107:27
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits end.
(See JPS YLT)

Psalms 124:3
then they would haveswallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 20:25
A snare to a man 'is' he hathswallowed a holy thing, And after vows to make inquiry.
(YLT)

Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool isswallowed by his own lips.
(WEB)

Isaiah 3:12
My people -- its exactors 'are' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy pathsswallowed up.
(YLT)

Isaiah 9:16
For the guides of this people mislead them; and they that are guided by them areswallowed up.
(DBY RSV)

Isaiah 25:7
Andswallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the covering that is spread over all the nations.
(YLT)

Isaiah 25:8
He hasswallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
(WEB ASV YLT)

Isaiah 28:7
They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They areswallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
(WEB KJV ASV YLT)

Isaiah 49:19
"For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you shall be too small for the inhabitants, and those whoswallowed you up shall be far away.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 2:24
A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hathswallowed up wind, Her meeting -- who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 14:6
And wild asses have stood on high places, They haveswallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 51:34
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster,swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 51:44
I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hasswallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Lamentations 2:2
The Lord hasswallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Lamentations 2:5
The Lord is become as an enemy, he hasswallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We haveswallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Ezekiel 36:3
therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, andswallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Hosea 8:8
Israel isswallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Obadiah 1:16
For -- as ye have drunk on My holy mount, Drink do all the nations continually, And they have drunk and haveswallowed, And they have been as they have not been.
(YLT)

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