Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to draw
Usage: 1) to draw (water) 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to draw (water) 1a2) water-drawing women (participle)
sha'ab - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Strong's H7579 שָׁאַב (sha'ab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. sha'ab (sahw-ab') v. 1. to bale up water [a primitive root] It has 18 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include water, draw, will, she, and women. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
sha'ab (sahw-ab') v. 1. to bale up water [a primitive root] KJV: (woman to) draw(-er, water).
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to draw
Usage: 1) to draw (water) 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to draw (water) 1a2) water-drawing women (participle)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sha'ab, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. 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.
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.
18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7579.
And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.
And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7579, grouped by book.
Strong's H7579 is a Hebrew entry for H7579 שָׁאַב (sha'ab). sha'ab (sahw-ab') v. 1. to bale up water [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H7579 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7579 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as water, draw, will, she, women, and waters. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.