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Hebrew verb · H8248

שָׁקָה

shaqahshaw-kaw'

to water: watering

61 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shâqâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8248is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 21 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 52
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8248

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

The King James renders it: cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See H7937 (שָׁכַר), H8354 (שָׁתָה).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

shaqah is rendered "to water: watering". It stands 61 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.

  • Nineteen of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 2:6But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
  • The Greek text spells it fifty-two different ways.

The first use

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

Genesis 2:6וְהִשְׁקָ֖ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • to water4
  • and he watered3
  • and she gave a drink him2
  • and they made drink2
  • give to drink me2
  • I will give a drink to2
  • will he give to drink me2
  • and he gave to drink1
  • and he has given to drink us1
  • and he made drink1
  • and he will make drink1
  • and he will make drink her1

and 39 more, 61 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

שָׁקַטshaqatto quietUses41
שָׁקַלshaqalto weighUses22
שָׁקַףshaqaphto lookUses22
שָׁקַדshaqadto watchUses12
שָׁקַץshaqatsto detestUses7
שָׁקַדshaqadbe almond shapedUses6
שָׁקַעshaqato sinkUses6
שָׁקַקshaqaqto rushUses6
שָׁקַרshaqarto dealUses6
שָׁקֵדshaqedalmondUses4
שָׁקֻףshaquphframeUses2
שָׁקshaqlegUses1

The words it stands beside

All 61, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

52 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַיַּ֖שְׁקְ3
  • לְהַשְׁק֖וֹת3
  • אַשְׁקֶ֑ה2
  • וְהִשְׁקָ֖ה2
  • וְהִשְׁקִיתָ֥2
  • יַשְׁקֵ֣נִי2
  • לְהַשְׁק֣וֹת2
  • אַשְׁקְךָ֙1
  • אַשְׁקֶ֑נָּה1
  • הַשְׁקֵ֥הוּ1
  • הַשְׁק֥וּ1
  • הַשְׁקִ֥ינִי1

and 40 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vhw3ms5Hc/Vhw3ms
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)5HR/Vhcc
  • Hc/Vhq2ms4Hc/Vhq2ms
  • Hc/Vhq3ms3Hc/Vhq3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVhi3mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HVhv2fs/Sp1bs
  • Hc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mp2Hc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mp
  • Hc/Vhw3fp2Hc/Vhw3fp
  • Hc/Vhw3fs/Sp3ms2Hc/Vhw3fs/Sp3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVhi1cs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVhi3ms/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/Vhcc

Genesis

nineteen uses
  • But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

    Genesis 2:6

    • וְהִשְׁקָ֖הvehishkahHc/Vhq3mstagged: and it watered
  • Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

    Genesis 2:10

    • לְהַשְׁק֖וֹתlehashkotpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to water
  • Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”

    Genesis 19:32

    • נַשְׁקֶ֧הnashkehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us make drink
  • 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.

    Genesis 19:33

    • וַתַּשְׁקֶ֧יןָvatashkeinaHc/Vhw3fptagged: and they made drink
  • 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 19:34

    • נַשְׁקֶ֨נּוּnashkenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let us make drink him
  • 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 19:35

    • וַתַּשְׁקֶ֜יןָvatashkeinaHc/Vhw3fptagged: and they made drink
  • Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

    Genesis 21:19

    • וַתַּ֖שְׁקְvatashkHc/Vhw3fstagged: and she gave a drink to
  • 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 24:14

    • אַשְׁקֶ֑הʾashkehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will give a drink to
  • “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

    Genesis 24:18

    • וַתַּשְׁקֵֽהוּ׃vatashkehuHc/Vhw3fs/Sp3mstagged: and she gave a drink him
  • 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 24:19

    • לְהַשְׁקֹת֑וֹlehashkotopreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to give a drink him
  • 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 24:43

    • הַשְׁקִֽינִי־hashkini-verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: give to drink me
  • And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’

    Genesis 24:45

    • הַשְׁקִ֥ינִיhashkiniverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: give a drink me
  • 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 24:46

    • אַשְׁקֶ֑הʾashkehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will give a drink to
    • הִשְׁקָֽתָה׃hishkatahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she gave a drink
  • He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

    Genesis 29:2

    • יַשְׁק֖וּyashkuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people watered
  • When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

    Genesis 29:3

    • וְהִשְׁק֖וּvehishkuHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they watered
  • “Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”

    Genesis 29:7

    • הַשְׁק֥וּhashkuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: water
  • But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

    Genesis 29:8

    • וְהִשְׁקִ֖ינוּvehishkinuHc/Vhq1cptagged: and we will water
  • As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

    Genesis 29:10

    • וַיַּ֕שְׁקְvaiyashkHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he watered

Exodus

four uses
  • Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

    Exodus 2:16

    • לְהַשְׁק֖וֹתlehashkotpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to water
  • And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.

    Exodus 2:17

    • וַיַּ֖שְׁקְvaiyashkHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he watered
  • “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

    Exodus 2:19

    • וַיַּ֖שְׁקְvaiyashkHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he watered
  • Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

    Exodus 32:20

    • וַיַּ֖שְׁקְvaiyashkHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made drink

Numbers

four uses
  • He is to have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause her bitter suffering.

    Numbers 5:24

    • וְהִשְׁקָה֙vehishkahHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will make drink
  • Then the priest is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar; after that he is to have the woman drink the water.

    Numbers 5:26

    • יַשְׁקֶ֥הyashkehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make drink
  • When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.

    Numbers 5:27

    • וְהִשְׁקָ֣הּvehishkahHc/Vhq3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he will make drink her
  • “Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”

    Numbers 20:8

    • וְהִשְׁקִיתָ֥vehishkitaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will give drink to

Deuteronomy

one use
  • For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.

    Deuteronomy 11:10

    • וְהִשְׁקִ֥יתָvehishkitaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you watered

Judges

two uses
  • Sisera said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.

    Judges 4:19

    • הַשְׁקִינִי־hashkini-verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: give to drink me
    • וַתַּשְׁקֵ֖הוּvatashkehuHc/Vhw3fs/Sp3mstagged: and she gave a drink him

1 Samuel

one use
  • Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—

    1 Samuel 30:11

    • וַיַּשְׁקֻ֖הוּvaiyashkuhuHc/Vhw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they gave to drink him

2 Samuel

one use
  • David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”

    2 Samuel 23:15

    • יַשְׁקֵ֣נִיyashkeniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: will he give to drink me

1 Chronicles

one use
  • David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”

    1 Chronicles 11:17

    • יַשְׁקֵ֣נִיyashkeniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: will he give to drink me

2 Chronicles

one use
  • Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

    2 Chronicles 28:15

    • וַיַּשְׁק֜וּםvaiyashkumHc/Vhw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they gave to drink them

Esther

one use
  • Beverages were served in an array of goblets of gold, each with a different design, and the royal wine flowed freely, according to the king’s bounty.

    Esther 1:7

    • וְהַשְׁקוֹת֙vehashkotconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and they gave to drink

Job

two uses
  • His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.

    Job 21:24

    • יְשֻׁקֶּֽה׃yeshukehverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is watered
  • You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

    Job 22:7

    • תַּשְׁקֶ֑הtashkehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have given to drink

Psalms

seven uses
  • They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.

    Psalms 36:8

    • תַשְׁקֵֽם׃tashkemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you give to drink them
  • You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.

    Psalms 60:3

    • הִ֝שְׁקִיתָ֗נוּhishkitanuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: you have made drink us
  • They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

    Psalms 69:21

    • יַשְׁק֥וּנִיyashkuniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they gave to drink me
  • He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

    Psalms 78:15

    • וַ֝יַּ֗שְׁקְvaiyashkHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he gave to drink
  • You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

    Psalms 80:5

    • וַ֝תַּשְׁקֵ֗מוֹvatashkemovHc/Vhw2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you have made drink them
  • They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

    Psalms 104:11

    • יַ֭שְׁקוּyashkuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they give drink to
  • He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.

    Psalms 104:13

    • מַשְׁקֶ֣הmashkehverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: watering

Proverbs

one use
  • If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

    Proverbs 25:21

    • הַשְׁקֵ֥הוּhashkehuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: give to drink him

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.

    Ecclesiastes 2:6

    • לְהַשְׁק֣וֹתlehashkotpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to water

Song of Solomon

one use
  • I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

    Song of Solomon 8:2

    • אַשְׁקְךָ֙ʾashkechaverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will give to drink you

Isaiah

two uses
  • I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

    Isaiah 27:3

    • אַשְׁקֶ֑נָּהʾashkenahverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: I water it
  • The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.

    Isaiah 43:20

    • לְהַשְׁק֖וֹתlehashkotpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to give drink to

Jeremiah

seven uses
  • Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

    Jeremiah 8:14

    • וַיַּשְׁקֵ֣נוּvaiyashkenuHc/Vhw3ms/Sp1bptagged: and he has given to drink us
  • Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

    Jeremiah 9:15

    • וְהִשְׁקִיתִ֖יםvehishkitimHc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will give to drink them
  • No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.

    Jeremiah 16:7

    • יַשְׁק֤וּyashkuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people will give to drink
  • Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

    Jeremiah 23:15

    • וְהִשְׁקִתִ֖יםvehishkitimHc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will make drink them
  • This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.

    Jeremiah 25:15

    • וְהִשְׁקִיתָ֤הvehishkitahHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will make drink
  • So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,

    Jeremiah 25:17

    • וָֽאַשְׁקֶה֙vaashkehHc/Vhw1cstagged: and I made drink
  • “Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine.”

    Jeremiah 35:2

    • וְהִשְׁקִיתָ֥vehishkitaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will give to drink

Ezekiel

two uses
  • But there was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him. It stretched out its branches to him from its planting bed, so that he might water it.

    Ezekiel 17:7

    • לְהַשְׁק֣וֹתlehashkotpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to water
  • I will drench the land with the flow of your blood, all the way to the mountains—the ravines will be filled.

    Ezekiel 32:6

    • וְהִשְׁקֵיתִ֨יvehishkeitiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will make drink

Joel

one use
  • And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

    Joel 3:18

    • וְהִשְׁקָ֖הvehishkahHc/Vhq3mstagged: and it will water

Amos

one use
  • “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

    Amos 2:12

    • וַתַּשְׁק֥וּvatashkuHc/Vhw2mptagged: and you made drink

Habakkuk

one use
  • Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

    Habakkuk 2:15

    • מַשְׁקֵ֣הmashkehverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: makes drink

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