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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Thirst

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

31exact KJV occurrences 20Old Testament 11New Testament 18books containing the word 6mapped Strong's IDs 31occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

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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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 7:16

They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where thirst appears.

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ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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HebrewH6772
צָמָא

tsâmâʼ · tsaw-maw'

16 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

thirst (literally or figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: thirst(-y).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Exodus 17:3Strong's last: Amos 8:13

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HebrewH6773
צִמְאָה

tsimʼâh · tsim-aw'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

thirst (figuratively, of libidinousnes)

Strong's KJV usage: thirst.

Strong's first: Jeremiah 2:25Strong's last: Jeremiah 2:25

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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31 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Exodus 17:3
H6772

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?

Deuteronomy 28:48
H6772

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.

Deuteronomy 29:19
H6771

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:

Judges 15:18
H6772

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?

2 Chronicles 32:11
H6772

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?

Nehemiah 9:15
H6772

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.

Nehemiah 9:20
H6772

Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Job 24:11
H6770

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Psalms 69:21
H6772

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Psalms 104:11
H6772

They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.

Isaiah 5:13
H6772

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.

Isaiah 41:17
H6772

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.

Isaiah 49:10
H6770

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.

Isaiah 50:2
H6772

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.

Jeremiah 2:25
H6773

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.

Jeremiah 48:18
H6772

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.

Lamentations 4:4
H6772

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.

Hosea 2:3
H6772

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.

Amos 8:11
H6772

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:

Amos 8:13
H6772

In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

Matthew 5:6
G1372

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

John 4:13
G1372

Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

John 4:14
G1372

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.

John 4:15
G1372

The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

John 6:35
G1372

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.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

thirst

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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