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Words
שָׁקָה H8248
- Home gloss
- give drink (hiphil)
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- water
- Note
- The causative of drinking: to give drink to people and flocks (21:19; 24:14–46; 29:2–10); its participle is the "cupbearer" (40:1). The ground and the garden are given drink as a flock is. "Water" is kept for מַיִם
- Rulings
- 2, 39
Occurrences (2)
- 2:6 and an upwelling would go up from the land and give drink to all the face of the ground—
- 2:10 And a river goes out from Eden to give drink to the garden, and from there it separates and becomes four heads.