שָׁקָה shaqah
Hebrew word for “to water” · Strong’s H8248 · used 61 times in 59 verses
Meaning
: drink(PEOPLE); 1) to give to drink, irrigate, drink, water, cause to drink water;
Senses in the lexicon
- to water: drink (39)
- to water: watering (22)
How it is translated
Glosses given for shaqah in context, with how often each is used:
- watered 7
- will make drink 6
- water 6
- made drink 5
- give to drink 4
- gave to drink 4
- gave a drink 3
- will give to drink 3
- us make drink 2
- give a drink 2
- will he give to drink 2
- have made drink 2
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genesis | 19 | 0.9 | |
| Psalms | 7 | 0.4 | |
| Jeremiah | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Exodus | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Numbers | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Judges | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Job | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 |
Also in 9 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 24 (6), Genesis 29 (5), Genesis 19 (4), Exodus 2 (3), Numbers 5 (3), Genesis 2 (2), Psalms 104 (2), Jeremiah 25 (2), Genesis 21 (1), Exodus 32 (1)
Forms
- וישׁק 5
- להשׁקות 5
- והשׁקה 4
- השׁקיני 3
- והשׁקית 3
- ישׁקו 3
- ותשׁקין 2
- ותשׁקהו 2
- ישׁקה 2
- ישׁקני 2
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shaqah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- מַי mayim “water” 19
- יַיִן yayin “wine” 10
- צֹאן tson “flock” 8
- כַּד kad “jar” 5
- בְּאֵר beer “well” 5
- רֹאשׁ rosh “poison” 4
- יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 7
- שָׁאַב shaav “to draw” 3
- גָּלַל galal “to roll” 3
- גַּם gam “also” 6
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 6
- כּוֹס kos “cup” 3
Key verses
The verses using shaqah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Numbers 20:8 — Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his…
- Psalms 36:8 — They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
- Psalms 60:3 — Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
- Psalms 78:15 — He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
- Proverbs 25:21 — If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
- Isaiah 27:3 — I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
- Isaiah 43:20 — The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my…
- Jeremiah 8:14 — Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence,…
- Jeremiah 25:15 — For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
- Jeremiah 35:2 — Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
- Joel 3:18 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow…
- Habakkuk 2:15 — Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
See all 59 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.