Strong's Hebrew · H8248

H8248 shâqâh

שָׁקָה

shaw-kaw'

to water

shâqâh appears 62 times in Scripture, including Genesis 2:6 and Genesis 2:10. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to

In the King James Version

cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See H7937 (שָׁכַר), H8354 (שָׁתָה).

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 62 times in Scripture

Genesis 19:32

“Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.””

Genesis 19:34

“The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.””

Genesis 24:43

“Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’”

Genesis 19:35

“So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.”

Genesis 24:14

“Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—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.””

Genesis 24:18

““Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.”

Genesis 24:19

“After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.””

Genesis 2:10

“Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:”

Genesis 2:6

“But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.”

Genesis 19:33

“So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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