Exodus 17:3
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
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And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Read in context →They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
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tsâmâʼ · tsaw-maw'
thirst (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: thirst(-y).
Strong's first: Exodus 17:3Strong's last: Amos 8:13
Open full H6772 profile →dipsáō · dip-sah'-o
to thirst for (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(be, be a-)thirst(-y).
Strong's first: Matthew 5:6Strong's last: Revelation 7:16
Open full G1372 profile →tsâmêʼ · tsaw-may'
to thirst (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: (be a-, suffer) thirst(-y).
Strong's first: Job 24:11Strong's last: Isaiah 49:10
Open full H6770 profile →dípsos · dip'-sos
thirst
Strong's KJV usage: :--thirst.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 11:27Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 11:27
Open full G1373 profile →tsâmêʼ · tsaw-may'
thirsty (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: (that) thirst(-eth, -y).
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 29:19Strong's last: Deuteronomy 29:19
Open full H6771 profile →tsimʼâh · tsim-aw'
thirst (figuratively, of libidinousnes)
Strong's KJV usage: thirst.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 2:25Strong's last: Jeremiah 2:25
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And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
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THIRST, noun thurst. [Latin torreo.]
1. A painful sensation of the throat or fauces, occasioned by the want of drink.
Wherefore is it that thou hast brought us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? Exodus 17:3.
2. A vehement desire of drink. Psalms 104:11.
3. A want and eager desire after any thing.
THIRST of worldly good.
THIRST of knowledge.
THIRST of praise.
THIRST after happiness.
But for is now more generally used after thirst; as a thirst for worldly honors; a thirst for praise.
4. Dryness; drouth.
The rapid current, through veins
Of porous earth with kindly thirst updrawn,
Rose a fresh fountain--
THIRST, verb intransitive thurst.
1. To experience a painful sensation of the throat or fauces for want of drink.
The people thirsted there for water. Exodus 17:3.
2. To have a vehement desire for any thing.
My soul thirsteth for the living God. Psalms 42:2.
THIRST, verb intransitive To want to drink; as, to thirst blood. [Not English.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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