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Lexicon :: Strong's G1372 - dipsaō

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διψάω
Transliteration
dipsaō (Key)
Pronunciation
dip-sah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From a variation of δίψος (G1373)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:226,177

Strong’s Definitions

διψάω dipsáō, dip-sah'-o; from a variation of G1373; to thirst for (literally or figuratively):—(be, be a-)thirst(-y).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's G1372 in the following manner: thirst (10x), be thirsty (3x), be athirst (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's G1372 in the following manner: thirst (10x), be thirsty (3x), be athirst (3x).

  1. to suffer thirst, suffer from thirst

    1. figuratively, those who are said to thirst who painfully feel their want of, and eagerly long for, those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, strengthened

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
διψάω dipsáō, dip-sah'-o; from a variation of G1373; to thirst for (literally or figuratively):—(be, be a-)thirst(-y).
STRONGS G1372:
διψάω, -ῶ, subjunctive present 3 person singular δίψᾷ (John 7:37; Romans 12:20; often so from the Macedonian age on for the Attic δίψῇ, cf. Winers Grammar, § 13, 3 b.; [Buttmann, 44 (38)]; Lob. ad Phryn., p. 61); future διψήσω; 1 aorist ἐδίψησα; (δίψα, thirst); [from Homer down]; to thirst;
1. absolutely, to suffer thirst; suffer from thirst: properly, Matthew 25:35, 37, 42, 44; John 4:15; John 19:28; Romans 12:20; 1 Corinthians 4:11; figuratively, those are said to thirst who painfully feel their want of, and eagerly long for, those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, strengthened: John 4:13; John 6:35; John 7:37; Revelation 7:16; Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:17; (Sir. 24:21 (Sir 24:20); Sir 51:24).
2. with an accusative of the thing desired: τὴν δικαιοσύνην, Matthew 5:6, (Psalm 62:2 (Ps. 63:2) in the better Greek writings with the genitive; cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 10 b.; [Buttmann, 147 (129)]; ἐλευθερίας, Plato, rep. 8, p. 562 c.; τιμῆς, Plutarch, Cat. maj. 11; others; cf. Winer's Grammar, 17).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
62:2; 63:2
Matthew
5:6; 25:35; 25:37; 25:42; 25:44
John
4:13; 4:15; 6:35; 7:37; 7:37; 19:28
Romans
12:20; 12:20
1 Corinthians
4:11
Revelation
7:16; 21:6; 22:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1372 matches the Greek διψάω (dipsaō),
which occurs 39 times in 38 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:3 - And the people thirsted there for water, and there the people murmured against Moses, saying, Why is this? hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to slay us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - who brought thee through that great and terrible wilderness, where is the biting serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee a fountain of water out of the flinty rock:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - And Sisara said to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty: and she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:18 - And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, Thou hast been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:9 - Let thine eyes be on the field where my men shall reap, and thou shalt go after them: behold, I have charged the young men not to touch thee: and when thou shalt thirst, then thou shalt go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men shall have drawn.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - Does not Ezekias deceive you, to deliver you to death and famine and thirst, saying, The Lord our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 - And thou gavest them bread from heaven for their food, and thou broughtest them forth water from a rock for their thirst; and thou badest them go in to inherit the land over which thou stretchedst out thy hand to give it them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:9 - And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:7 - Neither hast thou given water to the thirsty to drink, but hast taken away the morsel of the hungry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:23 - As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they waited for my speech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:2 - (LXX 41:3) My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - (LXX 62:1) A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Idumea. (62:2) O God, my God, I cry to thee early; my soul has thirsted for thee: how often has my flesh longed after thee, in a barren and trackless and dry land!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:21 - (LXX 68:22) They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:11 - (LXX 103:11) They shall give drink to all the wild beasts of the field: the wild asses shall take of them to quench their thirst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:5 - (LXX 106:5) Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:33 - (LXX 106:33) He turns rivers into a desert, and streams of [fn]water into [fn]a dry land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:21 - If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:25 - As cold water is agreeable to a thirsting soul, so is a good message from a land far off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:15 - A hungry lion and a thirsty wolf is he, who, being poor, rules over a poor nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord: and there has been a multitude of dead bodies, because of hunger and of thirst for water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:14 - Ye that dwell in the country of Thæman, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:4 - For thou hast been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: thou shalt deliver them from wicked men: thou hast been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:5 - We were as faint-hearted men thirsting in Sion, by reason of ungodly men to whom thou didst deliver us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 - And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is vain: and as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has desired in vain: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against the mount Sion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 - And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Sion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6 - For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and he will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1 - Be glad, thou thirsty desert: let the wilderness exult, and flower as the lily.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:6 - Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7 - And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall be poured into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:17 - And the poor and the needy shall exult; for when they shall seek water, and there shall be none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord God, I the God of Israel will hear, and will not forsake them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18 - but I will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains: I will make the desert pools of water, and a thirsty land watercourses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:21 - And if they shall thirst, he shall lead them through the desert; he shall bring forth water to them out of the rock: the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and my people shall drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:10 - [fn] They shall not hunger, neither shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun smite them; but he that has mercy on them shall comfort them, and by fountains of waters shall he lead them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:2 - We brought a report as of a child before him; he is as a root in a thirsty land: he has no form nor comeliness; and we saw him, but he had no form nor beauty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:1 - Ye that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go and buy; and eat and drink wine and fat without money or price.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:13 - Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall hunger: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:25 - (LXX 38:25) For I have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:11 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send forth a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord.
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