Lexicon :: Strong's H8248 - šāqâ

But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground.

A river went[fn] out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.[fn]

“Come, let’s get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father’s line.”

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.

“Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’ ​— ​let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

She replied, “Drink, my lord.” She quickly lowered her jug to her hand and gave him a drink.

“I am standing here at a spring. Let the young woman[fn] who comes out to draw water, and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jug,’

“Before I had finished praying silently, there was Rebekah coming with her jug on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please let me have a drink.’

He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. But a large stone covered the opening of the well.

Then Jacob said, “Look, it is still broad daylight. It’s not time for the animals to be gathered. Water the flock, then go out and let them graze.”

As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban’s daughter Rachel with his sheep,[fn] he went up and rolled the stone from the opening and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

He took the calf they had made, burned it up, and ground it to powder. He scattered the powder over the surface of the water and forced the Israelites to drink the water.

“He will require the woman to drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her to cause bitter suffering.

“The priest is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar. Afterward, he will require the woman to drink the water.

“Take the staff and assemble the community. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will yield its water. You will bring out water for them from the rock and provide drink for the community and their livestock.”

“For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand[fn] as in a vegetable garden.

He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty.” She opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.

David’s men found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. They gave him some bread to eat and water to drink.

David was extremely thirsty[fn] and said, “If only someone would bring me water to drink from the well at the city gate of Bethlehem! ”

David was extremely thirsty[fn] and said, “If only someone would bring me water to drink from the well at the city gate of Bethlehem! ”

Then the men who were designated by name took charge of the captives and provided clothes for their naked ones from the plunder. They clothed them, gave them sandals, food and drink, dressed their wounds, and provided donkeys for all the feeble. The Israelites brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, among their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

Drinks were served in an array of gold goblets, each with a different design. Royal wine flowed freely, according to the king’s bounty.

His body is[fn] well fed,[fn]

and his bones are full of marrow.[fn]

You gave no water to the thirsty

and withheld food from the famished,

They are filled from the abundance of your house.

You let them drink from your refreshing stream.

You have made your people suffer hardship;

you have given us wine to drink

that made us stagger.

Instead, they gave me gall for my food,

and for my thirst

they gave me vinegar to drink.

He split rocks in the wilderness

and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.

You fed them the bread of tears

and gave them a full measure[fn]

of tears to drink.

They supply water for every wild beast;

the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

He waters the mountains from his palace;

the earth is satisfied by the fruit of your labor.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat,

and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

I constructed reservoirs for myself from which to irrigate a grove of flourishing trees.

I would lead you, I would take you,

to the house of my mother who taught me.[fn]

I would give you spiced wine to drink

from the juice of my pomegranate.

I am the LORD, who watches over it

to water it regularly.

So that no one disturbs it,

I watch over it night and day.

“Wild animals —

jackals and ostriches ​— ​will honor me,

because I provide water in the wilderness,

and rivers in the desert,

to give drink to my chosen people.

Why are we just sitting here?

Gather together; let’s enter the fortified cities

and perish there,[fn]

for the LORD our God has destroyed[fn] us.

He has given us poisoned water to drink,

because we have sinned against the LORD.

Therefore, this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink.

“Food won’t be provided for the mourner to comfort him because of the dead. A consoling drink won’t be given him for the loss of his father or mother.