Lexicon :: Strong's H8248 - šāqâ

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four [branching] rivers.

“Before I had finished praying in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her [water] jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. And I said to her, ‘Please, let me have a drink.’

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water [from the well where Moses was resting] and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

They found an Egyptian [who had collapsed] in the field and brought him to David, and gave him bread and he ate, and they gave him water to drink,

His pails are full of milk [his sides are filled out with fat],

And the marrow of his bones is moist,

“You have not given water to the weary to drink,

And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;

And You allow them to drink from the river of Your delights.

You have made Your people experience hardship;

You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger and fall.

They (self-righteous hypocrites) also gave me gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food,

And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

He split rocks in the wilderness

And gave them abundant [water to] drink like the ocean depths.

You have fed them the bread of tears,

And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.

They give drink to every beast of the field;

The wild donkeys quench their thirst there.

He waters the mountains from His upper chambers;

The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat;

And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

“I would lead you and bring you

Into the house of my mother, who used to instruct me;

I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranates.

“I, the LORD, am its Keeper;

I water it every moment.

So that no one will harm it,

I guard it night and day.

“The beasts of the field will honor Me,

Jackals and ostriches,

Because I have given waters in the wilderness

And rivers in the desert,

To give drink to My people, My chosen.

Why are we sitting still [the people wonder]?

Assemble yourselves, and let us enter the fortified cities

And let us die there,

For the LORD our God has decreed our ruin

And given us bitter and poisonous water to drink,

Because we have sinned against the LORD.