Strong's Hebrew · H8354

H8354 shâthâh

שָׁתָה

shaw-thaw'

to drink

shâthâh appears 216 times in Scripture, including Genesis 9:21 and Genesis 24:14. 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 imbibe (literally or figuratively)

In the King James Version

× assuredly, banquet, × certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk (× -ard), surely. (Prop. intensive of H8248 (שָׁקָה).)

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 216 times in Scripture

Genesis 9:21

“But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.”

Genesis 24:46

“She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.”

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 24:44

“and she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.”

Genesis 24:54

“Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.””

Genesis 24:22

“And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.”

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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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