rava · drink one's fill, drench

What it means

rava (רָוָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “drink one's fill, drench”.

To drink one's fill, to be soaked: to drink until satisfied; said of land, to be well watered.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To drink until wanting no more.
2. To water abundantly.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• drenched ×3
• I will drench ×2
• They drink their fill ×1
• drink its fill ×1
• he has made me drunk ×1
• let us drink our fill ×1
• one who waters ×1
• satisfied me ×1
• satisfy you ×1
• water ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1

• Psalms 36:8

  They drink their fill of the fatness of your house, and from the stream of your delights you give them drink.

• Psalms 65:10

  Its furrows you drench, you level its clods; with downpours you soften it; its sprouts you bless.

• Proverbs 5:19

  a loving doe and a graceful mountain goat; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; in her love may you be lost always.

• Proverbs 7:18

  Come, let us drink our fill of love until the morning; let us delight ourselves with caresses.

• Proverbs 11:25

  A soul of blessing will be filled to the full, and one who waters will also himself be watered.

• Isaiah 16:9

  Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh; for on your summer fruit and on your harvest the shout has fallen.

• Isaiah 34:5

  For my sword is drenched in the heavens; look, upon Edom it will come down, and upon the people I have devoted to destruction, for judgment.

• Isaiah 34:7

  And wild oxen will come down with them, and young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drenched with blood, and their dust with fat will be made fat.

• Isaiah 43:24

  You have not bought me with silver aromatic cane, and with the fat of your sacrifices you have not satisfied me; but you have made me serve with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.

• Isaiah 55:10

  For as the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return there, but water the earth and make it give birth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

• Jeremiah 31:14

  And I will drench the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness, declares YHWH.”

• Jeremiah 31:25

  For I have drenched the weary soul, and every languishing soul I have filled.”

• Jeremiah 46:10

  And that day belongs to Adonai YHWH Tsevaot, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his adversaries; and the sword will devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood; for Adonai YHWH Tsevaot has a sacrifice in the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

• Lamentations 3:15

  He has filled me with bitter things; he has made me drunk with wormwood.