Strong's #8248: shaqah (pronounced shaw-kaw')
a primitive root; to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to:--cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See 7937, 8354.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shâqâh
1) to give to drink, irrigate, drink, water, cause to drink water
1a) (Hiphil)
1a1) to water, irrigate
1a2) to water, give drink to
1b) (Pual) to be watered
1c) (Niphal) variant
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 60 times:
Jeremiah 16:7: "neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother."
Jeremiah 23:15: "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from"
Jeremiah 25:15: "the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink"
Jeremiah 25:17: "hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD"
Jeremiah 35:2: "one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."
Ezekiel 17:7: "toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation."
Ezekiel 32:6: " I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers"
Joel 3:18: "shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim."
Amos 2:12: "But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy"
Habakkuk 2:15: "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that"
