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Lexicon :: Strong's H8248 - šāqâ

Aa
שָׁקָה
Transliteration
šāqâ
Pronunciation
shaw-kaw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2452

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁקָה shâqâh, shaw-kaw'; a primitive root; to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to:—cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See H7937, H8354.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 74x

The KJV translates Strong's H8248 in the following manner: drink (43x), water (17x), butler (9x), cupbearer (3x), miscellaneous (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 74x
The KJV translates Strong's H8248 in the following manner: drink (43x), water (17x), butler (9x), cupbearer (3x), miscellaneous (1x).

  1. to give to drink, irrigate, drink, water, cause to drink water

    1. (Hiphil)

      1. to water, irrigate

      2. to water, give drink to

    2. (Pual) to be watered

    3. (Niphal) variant

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁקָה shâqâh, shaw-kaw'; a primitive root; to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to:—cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See H7937, H8354.
STRONGS H8248: Abbreviations
† [שָׁקָה] verb
Hiph. cause to drink water, give to drink (Late Hebrew Hiph. id.; Arabic bdb105204 I. give to drink; Sabean סקי be irrigated FellZMG liv (1900), 246, מסקי drinks HomChr 124, מסתקין id. DHMHofmus., No. 1, l. 7; Ethiopic bdb105205 water, irrigate; Assyrian šaḳû I. = Hebrew Hiph., Aramaic שְׁקָא, bdb105206 Aph`el); — for Qal see שָׁתָה; — Perfect 3rd person masculine singular consecutive וְהִשְׁקָה Genesis 2:6 +, suffix וְהִשְׁקָהּ Numbers 5:27; 2nd person masculine singular consecutive וְהִשְׁקִיתָ Numbers 20:8 +; 1st person singular consecutive וְהִשְׁקֵיתִי Ezekiel 32:6, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַשְׁקֶה Numbers 5:26, וַיַּשְׁקְ Genesis 29:10 +, etc.; Imperative masculine singular suffix הַשְׁקִ֫הוּ Proverbs 25:21; feminine singular suffix הַשְׁקֹ֫ינִי Genesis 24:43 +; Infinitive construct הַשְׁקוֺת Genesis 2:10 +, suffix הַשְׁקֹתוֺ Genesis 24:19; Participle מַשְׁקֶה Psalm 104:13, construct Habakkuk 2:15 (see also I., II. מַשְׁקֶה); —
1. water, irrigate, ground: subject mist Genesis 2:6, river Genesis 2:10 (both J), spring Joel 4:18 [Joel 3:18]; subject י׳ Isaiah 27:3 (כֶּרֶם), Ezekiel 17:7 (גֶּפֶן), both in figure, figurative also Ezekiel 32:6 water land מִדָּם; literal with מִן of source Psalm 104:13 (הָרִים) and (subject man) Ecclesiastes 2:6 (יַעַר).
2. water, give drink to, usually human subject, accusative of beast, Genesis 24:14, 46 (twice in verse); Genesis 29:2 (מִן of source), Genesis 29:3; Genesis 29:7; Genesis 29:8; Genesis 29:10; Exodus 2:16, 17, 19 (all J), Psalm 104:11 (subject springs); accusative of person Genesis 21:19 (E), Genesis 24:18, 19, 45 (J), Habakkuk 2:15 (figurative), Isaiah 43:20 (י׳ subject), Psalm 78:15 (id.), 2 Chronicles 28:15, with ב of vessel Esther 1:7; with accusative of person and animal. Numbers 20:8 (P); give one something to drink, accusative of person + of thing (water, wine, etc.), Amos 2:12; Genesis 19:32, 33, 34, 35; Genesis 24:43 (all J), Judges 4:19; 1 Samuel 30:11; 2 Samuel 23:15 = 1 Chronicles 11:15; Job 22:7, compare Songs 8:2 (מִיַּיִן); figurative Jeremiah 8:14; Jeremiah 9:14; Jeremiah 16:7; Jeremiah 23:15; Jeremiah 25:15; Psalm 69:22, compare וְנַחַל עֲדָנֶיךָ תַשְׁקֵם Psalm 36:9, and וַתַּשְׁקֵ֫מוֺ בִּדְמָעוֺת Psalm 80:6; accusative of thing omitted, literal Judges 4:19; Exodus 32:20 (E), figurative Jeremiah 25:17. — See also I.מַשְׁקֶה below.
Pu. Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular וּמֹחַ עַצְמוֺתָיו יְשֻׁקֶּה Job 21:24 the marrow of his bones is watered, (refreshed, invigorated). — נשׁקה Amos 8:8 see שׁקע.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:6; 2:6; 2:10; 2:10; 19:32; 19:33; 19:34; 19:35; 21:19; 24:14; 24:18; 24:19; 24:19; 24:43; 24:43; 24:45; 24:46; 29:2; 29:3; 29:7; 29:8; 29:10; 29:10

Exodus

2:16; 2:17; 2:19; 32:20

Numbers

5:26; 5:27; 20:8; 20:8

Judges

4:19; 4:19

1 Samuel

30:11

2 Samuel

23:15

1 Chronicles

11:15

2 Chronicles

28:15

Esther

1:7

Job

21:24; 22:7

Psalms

36:9; 69:22; 78:15; 80:6; 104:11; 104:13; 104:13

Proverbs

25:21

Ecclesiastes

2:6

Song of Songs

8:2

Isaiah

27:3; 43:20

Jeremiah

8:14; 9:14; 16:7; 23:15; 25:15; 25:17

Ezekiel

17:7; 32:6; 32:6

Joel

3:18

Amos

2:12; 8:8

Habakkuk

2:15; 2:15

H8248

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Strong's Number H8248 matches the Hebrew שָׁקָה (šāqâ),
which occurs 62 times in 60 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 2:6–Jer 16:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6 - But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10 - And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:32 - Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:33 - And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:35 - And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:18 - And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:19 - And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:45 - And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:46 - And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - And they said, We are not able to do so till all the flocks have come together and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the water-hole; then we will get water for the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16 - Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:17 - And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:19 - And they said, An Egyptian came to our help against the keepers of sheep and got water for us and gave it to the flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:24 - And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:26 - And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:8 - Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - For the land where you are going is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you put in your seeds, watering them with your foot, like a planted garden:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:11 - And in the fields they saw an Egyptian whom they took to David, and they gave him bread, and he had a meal, and they gave him water for drink;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:15 - And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:17 - And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of the water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem by the doorway into the town!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - And those men who have been named went up and took the prisoners, clothing those among them who were uncovered, with things from the goods which had been taken in the war, and putting robes on them and shoes on their feet; and they gave them food and drink and oil for their bodies, and seating all the feeble among them on asses, they took them to Jericho, the town of palm-trees, to their people, and then went back to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:7 - And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24 - His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:7 - You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:8 - The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:3 - You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:21 - They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:5 - You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:11 - They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:13 - He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:21 - If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:6 - I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:2 - I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:3 - I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20 - The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 - Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:15 - So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7 - No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

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