Consumption

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

CONSUMPTION . The Heb. word ( kâlâh ) which is translated ‘consummation’ in   Daniel 9:27 is rendered ‘consumption’ in   Isaiah 10:23;   Isaiah 28:22 , these Eng. words having then the same meaning. Cf. Foxe, Actes and Mon ., ‘Christ shall sit … at the right hand of God till the consumption of the world.’ Consumption occurs also with the same meaning in   Isaiah 10:22 (Heb. killyôn ). But in   Leviticus 26:16 ,   Deuteronomy 28:22 it is used of a disease of the body. See Medicine.

King James Dictionary

CONSUMPTION, n. L. 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, &c. 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, &c.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

(2): (n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; - called also pulmonary consumption.

(3): (n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Being brought to an end by judgements.  Isaiah 10:22,23;  Isaiah 28:22 .

2. Wasting away of the body.  Leviticus 26:16;  Deuteronomy 28:22 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Leviticus 26:16 Deuteronomy 28:22 Isaiah 10:22 Isaiah 28:22

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kon - sump´shun ( שׁחפת , shaḥepheth , "wasting away"): One of the punishments which was to follow neglect or breach of the law. It may mean pulmonary consumption, which occurs frequently in Palestine; but from its association with fever in the texts,  Leviticus 26:16;  Deuteronomy 28:22 , it is more likely to be the much more common condition of wasting and emaciation from prolonged or often recurring attacks of malarial fever.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

as a disease, is the rendering of the Heb. שִׁחֶפֶת , Shache'Pheth (occurs only  Leviticus 26:10;  Deuteronomy 28:22), from שָׁחִפ , Shachaph' , to pine away; and probably designates a wasting malady. (See Disease).