CONSUMPTION.The Heb. word (kâlâh) which is translated consummation in Dan_9:27 is rendered consumption in Isa_10:23; Isa_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 Isa_10:22 (Heb. killyôn). But in Lev_26:16, Deu_28:22 it is used of a disease of the body. See Medicine.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
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, Lev_26:16; Deu_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.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Consumption
as a disease, is the rendering of the Heb. שִׁחֶפֶת, shache'pheth (occurs only Lev_26:10; Deu_28:22), from שָׁחִפ, shachaph', to pine away; and probably designates a wasting malady. SEE DISEASE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.