shaav · draw water

What it means

shaav (שָׁאַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “draw water”.

From a well.

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 draw water from the well.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• draw ×10
• drew ×5
• drawers ×3
• one who draws ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×3
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 24:11

  He made the camels kneel outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time the women who draw water go out.

• Genesis 24:13

  Look, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

• Genesis 24:19

  When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels until they have finished drinking.”

• Genesis 24:20

  She quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

• Genesis 24:43

  look, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it be that the young woman who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar,”

• Genesis 24:44

  and who says to me, “Drink, you too, and I will also draw water for your camels,” she is the woman whom YHWH has appointed for the son of my lord.’

• Genesis 24:45

  Before I had finished speaking in my heart, look, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

• Deuteronomy 29:11

  your little ones, your wives, and your resident alien who is in the midst of your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,

• Joshua 9:21

  The chiefs said to them, “Let them live.” So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the community, just as the chiefs had spoken to them.

• Joshua 9:23

  Now you are cursed, and there shall not be cut off from among you slaves, and cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my Elohim.”

• Joshua 9:27

  And Joshua made them, on that day, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the community and for the altar of YHWH, to this day, at the place that he would choose.

• Ruth 2:9

  Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Have I not commanded the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men draw.”

• 1 Samuel 7:6

  So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before YHWH, and they fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against YHWH.” And Samuel judged the sons of Israel at Mizpah.

• 1 Samuel 9:11

  As they were going up the ascent to the city, they found young women going out to draw water, and they said to them, “Is the seer here?”

• 2 Samuel 23:16

  The three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate, and they carried it and brought it to David; but he was not willing to drink it, and he poured it out as a libation to YHWH.

• 1 Chronicles 11:18

  The three broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate, and they carried it and brought it to David; but David was not willing to drink it, and he poured it out as a libation to YHWH.

• Isaiah 12:3

  And you will draw water with joy from the springs of salvation.

• Nahum 3:14

  Draw water for the siege for yourself; strengthen your fortresses; go into the mud and tread the clay; take hold of the brick mold.

And 1 more times.