שָׁאַבshâʼab
draw, (water)
Pronunciation: sahw-ab' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7579
Meanings
Qal: draw water (Isaiah 12:3; Genesis 24:20; Genesis 24:45)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 19 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 24:11 He made the camels kneel beside a well just outside the town. It was evening, and the women were coming out to draw water.
- Genesis 24:13 See, I am standing here beside this spring, and the young women of the town are coming out to draw water.
- Genesis 24:19 When she had given him a drink, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels, too, until they have had enough to drink.”
- Genesis 24:20 So she quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw water for all his camels.
- Genesis 24:43 See, I am standing here beside this spring. This is my request. When a young woman comes to draw water, I will say to her, “Please give me a little drink of water from your jug.”
- Genesis 24:44 If she says, “Yes, have a drink, and I will draw water for your camels, too,” let her be the one you have selected to be the wife of my master’s son.’
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).