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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Thirst
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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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6 occurrences in 6 verses.
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Exodus
11 verses
Deuteronomy
22 verses
Judges
11 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Nehemiah
22 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
22 verses
Isaiah
44 verses
Jeremiah
22 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Amos
22 verses
Matthew
11 verses
John
66 verses
Romans
11 verses
1 Corinthians
11 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
Revelation
11 verses
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צָמָא
tsâmâʼ · tsaw-maw'
16 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
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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dipsáō · dip-sah'-o
10 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
to thirst for (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(be, be a-)thirst(-y).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 5:6Strong's last: Revelation 7:16
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tsâmêʼ · tsaw-may'
2 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
to thirst (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: (be a-, suffer) thirst(-y).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 24:11Strong's last: Isaiah 49:10
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dípsos · dip'-sos
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
thirst
Strong's KJV usage: :--thirst.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 11:27Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 11:27
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tsâmêʼ · tsaw-may'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
thirsty (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: (that) thirst(-eth, -y).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 29:19Strong's last: Deuteronomy 29:19
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tsimʼâh · tsim-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
thirst (figuratively, of libidinousnes)
Strong's KJV usage: thirst.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 2:25Strong's last: Jeremiah 2:25
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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?
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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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