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Strong's G1372 διψάω (dipsao)

dipsao - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1372 — gabbachath (“bald forehead”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1372
Language Greek
Linked Usages 51
Books 16

Strong's G1372 Quick Answer

Strong's G1372 διψάω (dipsao) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. dipsao (dip-sah'-o) v. 1. to thirst for {literally or figuratively} It has 51 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include thirst. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
dipsao (dip-sah'-o) v. 1. to thirst for {literally or figuratively}
Usage
51 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
thirst

Meaning and Definition

dipsao (dip-sah'-o) v. 1. to thirst for {literally or figuratively} [from a variation of G1373] KJV: (be, be a-)thirst(-y) Root(s): G1373

Original Word
διψάω
Transliteration
dipsao
Derivation
Root: δίψος R1: 1373
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1372. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to thirst

Usage: διψάω,-ῶ (δίψα, thirst), [in LXX chiefly for צָמֵא ;] to thirst: absol., Mat.25:35, 37 25:42, 44, Jhn.4:13, 15 19:28, Rom.12:20" (LXX), 1Co.4:11; figuratively, Jhn.4:14 6:35 7:37, Rev.7:16 21:6 22:17; with accusative (= cl. with genitive), τ. δικαιοσύνην, Mat.5:6.† (AS)

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How Strong's G1372 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render dipsao, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

thirst Matthew 5:6 10×

How Strong's G1372 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 29 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1372 (διψάω) appears 36 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1372 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1372 in the New Testament

16 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 5:6 KJV

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

Matthew 25:35 KJV

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

Matthew 25:37 KJV

Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

Strong's G1372 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

29 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 17:3 Septuagint / Brenton

And the people thirsted there for water, and there the people murmured against Moses, saying, Why is this? hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to slay us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

Judges 4:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And Sisera said to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty: and she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him.

Judges 15:18 Septuagint / Brenton

And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, Thou hast been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

Strong's G1372 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 8:30 Septuagint / Brenton

But the people were very thirsty, and compelled us to do unto them as we have spoken, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we will not break.

Wisdom of Solomon 11:4 Septuagint / Brenton

When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, And water was given them out of the flinty rock, And their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.

Wisdom of Solomon 11:14 Septuagint / Brenton

For whom they rejected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, Him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they admired.

Usage Excerpts

First 51 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1372.

Exodus 17:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people thirsted there for water, and there the people murmured against Moses, saying, Why is this? hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to slay us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Judges 4:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Sisera said to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty: and she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him.
Judges 15:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, Thou hast been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
Ruth 2:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let thine eyes be on the field where my men shall reap, and thou shalt go after them: behold, I have charged the young men not to touch thee: and when thou shalt thirst, then thou shalt go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men shall have drawn.
Job 18:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let snares come upon him: He shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
Job 22:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Neither hast thou given water to the thirsty to drink, But hast taken away the morsel of the hungry.
Job 29:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, So they waited for my speech.
Psalms 41:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My soul has thirsted for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?
Psalms 62:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O God, my God, I cry to thee early; My soul has thirsted for thee: How often has my flesh longed after thee, In a barren and trackless and dry land!
Psalms 106:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
Proverbs 32:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Proverbs 32:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Proverbs 35:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 21:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye that dwell in the country of Tema, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;
Isaiah 25:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou hast been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: thou shalt deliver them from wicked men: thou hast been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.
Isaiah 25:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We were as faint-hearted men thirsting in Zion, by reason of ungodly men to whom thou didst deliver us.
Isaiah 29:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is vain: and as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has desired in vain: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against the Mount Zion.
Isaiah 32:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Zion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.
Isaiah 32:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and he will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.
Isaiah 35:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Be glad, thou thirsty desert: let the wilderness exult, and flower as the lily.
Isaiah 35:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land.
Isaiah 35:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall be poured into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.
Isaiah 41:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but I will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains: I will make the desert pools of water, and a thirsty land watercourses.
Isaiah 48:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if they shall thirst, he shall lead them through the desert; he shall bring forth water to them out of the rock: the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and my people shall drink.
Isaiah 49:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall not hunger, neither shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun smite them; but he that has mercy on them shall comfort them, and by fountains of waters shall he lead them.
Isaiah 53:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We brought a report as of a child before him; he is as a root in a thirsty land: he has no form nor comeliness; and we saw him, but he had no form nor beauty.
Isaiah 55:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go and buy; and eat and drink wine and fat without money or price.
Isaiah 65:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall hunger: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
Jeremiah 38:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry soul.
Matthew 5:6 New Testament, KJV
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 25:35 New Testament, KJV
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Matthew 25:37 New Testament, KJV
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
Matthew 25:42 New Testament, KJV
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Matthew 25:44 New Testament, KJV
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
John 4:13 New Testament, KJV
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
John 4:14 New Testament, KJV
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 New Testament, KJV
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
John 6:35 New Testament, KJV
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.
John 7:37 New Testament, KJV
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
John 19:28 New Testament, KJV
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
Romans 12:20 New Testament, KJV
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
1 Corinthians 4:11 New Testament, KJV
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
Revelation 7:16 New Testament, KJV
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
Revelation 21:6 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Revelation 22:17 New Testament, KJV
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Judith 8:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But the people were very thirsty, and compelled us to do unto them as we have spoken, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we will not break.
Wisdom of Solomon 11:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, And water was given them out of the flinty rock, And their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.
Wisdom of Solomon 11:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For whom they rejected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, Him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they admired.
Wisdom of Sirach 24:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They that eat me shall yet be hungry, And they that drink me shall yet be thirsty.
Wisdom of Sirach 26:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
She will open her mouth, as a thirsty traveler when he hath found a fountain, And drink of every water near her: By every hedge will she sit down, And open her quiver against every arrow.
Wisdom of Sirach 51:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore are ye slow, and what say ye of these things, Seeing your souls are very thirsty?

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1372, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ruth 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 5 usages, New Testament
John 6 usages, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 3 usages, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1372 FAQ

What does dipsao (διψάω) mean?

Strong's G1372 is a Greek entry for G1372 διψάω (dipsao). dipsao (dip-sah'-o) v. 1. to thirst for {literally or figuratively}

How many times is dipsao (διψάω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 51 linked usages for Strong's G1372 across 16 books.

Where can I study dipsao (διψάω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1372 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate dipsao (διψάω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as thirst. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1372 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 29 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1372, with linked reader references where each row is available.