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Water names 3 things on this site
- Water, a featured study.The flood, the rock at Horeb, the well at noon, the pool at Siloam, and the river from the throne: what washing, thirst and drowning mean across the canon.
- Water, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Water Baptism, a featured study.A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
Featured studies
12 results- StudyWalking on Water — Matthew 14:22–33A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyWaterThe flood, the rock at Horeb, the well at noon, the pool at Siloam, and the river from the throne: what washing, thirst and drowning mean across the canon.
- StudyWater BaptismA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyJohn 5:4: The angel who troubled the water at BethesdaThe explanation that an angel stirred the pool and healed the first one in is missing from the earliest manuscripts of John, and looks like a note explaining local belief that a copyist folded into…
- StudyNehemiah: the Study GuideA burdened cupbearer prays, is sent, and rebuilds Jerusalem's wall in 52 days under mockery and conspiracy: then, with Ezra, leads the city into the Word, a signed covenant, and a watch that does…
Verses
608 results- VerseJames 3:11Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
- VerseProverbs 5:15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- VerseProverbs 9:17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
- VerseEcclesiastes 2:6I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.
- VerseProverbs 27:19As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.
People
1 resultPlaces
3 results- PlaceLaodiceaThe wealthy neighbor of Colossae that received a letter from Paul now lost and the rebuke of Revelation 3 for lukewarm faith, its tepid piped water the living picture.
- PlaceCana of GalileeThe Galilean village where Jesus turned water into wine (the first sign) and, from there, healed the official's son at Capernaum (John 2:1-11; 4:46-54).
- PlaceAraratThe mountains of the old kingdom of Urartu where the ark came to rest as the waters went down, where Noah built his altar and saw the bow, and where a later king’s sons fled…
Words (Strong's)
- WordG5204 (Greek)water (as if rainy) literally or figuratively. The Greek word stands 76 times in the original text.
- WordH7579 שָׁאַב · shâʼab (Hebrew)to bale up water. The Hebrew word stands 19 times in the original text.
- WordH4945 מַשְׁקֶה · mashqeh (Hebrew)properly, causing to drink, i.e. a butler. The Hebrew word stands 19 times in the original text.
- WordH4325 מַיִם · mayim (Hebrew)water. The Hebrew word stands 581 times in the original text.
- WordG4215 ποταμός · potamós (Greek)a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), i.e. running water. The Greek word stands 17 times in the original text.
Themes
2 results- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
Topics
2 resultsProphecies
4 results- ProphecyWalks on WaterOnly God treads on the waves; the Messiah would demonstrate divine power.
- ProphecyEgypt's Waters and Agriculture FailureIsaiah predicted the failure of Egypt's Nile-based economy, including fishing, flax production, and weaving industries.
- ProphecyGiven Gall and VinegarIn his suffering, the Messiah would be given gall and vinegar instead of water.
- ProphecyGreat Shepherd Brought Again from DeadOld Testament shepherd imagery applied to the deliverer who leads God's people through waters (Isaiah 63) finds fulfillment in the New Testament's Great Shepherd brought back…
Voices
12 results- VoiceNerses of LambronNerses was born in 1153 at the castle of Lambron in Cilicia — Armenian Cilicia, the kingdom Armenians had built along the southeastern coast of Asia Minor after the Seljuk…
- VoiceSyncletica of AlexandriaSyncletica was born at Alexandria, probably late in the third century, to Macedonian parents who had settled in Egypt and grown rich. She died about 350, in her eighties. Her…
- VoiceGregory of NeocaesareaHe was born Theodore, around 213, into a wealthy pagan family in Neocaesarea in Pontus, on the Black Sea coast of what is now Turkey. His father died when he was fourteen. He…
- VoiceTheophilus of AlexandriaTheophilus was patriarch of Alexandria from 385 to 412. He was a formidable administrator, a capable writer, and by common consent one of the least attractive figures in the…
- VoiceMaximus of TurinMaximus was bishop of Turin, a garrison city in the foothills of the Alps on the road from Gaul into Italy. Roughly a hundred of his sermons survive, and they are the reason he…
Apocrypha (study resources)
141 results- Study resource1 Enoch 28:2A study resource outside the 66-book canon, labelled as such.
- Study resourceSirach 3:30Water will quench a flaming fire; and alms maketh an atonement for sins.
- Study resourceSirach 25:25Give the water no passage; neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 19:20The fire had power in the water, forgetting his own virtue: and the water forgat his own quenching nature.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 10:18Brought them through the Red sea, and led them through much water:
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