International Standard Bible Encyclopedia THIRSTthurst (tsama', verb tsame'; dipsao, dipsos, dipsa): One of the most powerful natural appetities, the craving for water or other drink. Besides its natural significance, thirst is figuratively used of strong spiritual desire. The soul thirsts for God (Psalm 42:2; Psalm 63:1). Jesus meets the soul's thirst with water of life (John 4:13; 6:35; 7:37). It is said of the heavenly bliss, "They shall hunger no more; neither thirst any more" (Revelation 7:16, 17; compare Isaiah 49:10). Greek 1372. dipsao -- to thirst ... to thirst. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: dipsao Phonetic Spelling: (dip-sah'-o) Short Definition: I thirst for, desire earnestly Definition: I thirst ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1372.htm - 7k 1373. dipsos -- thirst Strong's Hebrew 6772. tsama -- thirst... 6771, 6772. tsama. 6773 . thirst. Transliteration: tsama Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-maw') Short Definition: thirst. Word Origin from ... /hebrew/6772.htm - 6k 6773. tsimah -- parched condition 6770. tsame -- to be thirsty 3864. Lubim -- inhab. of N. Africa 5315. nephesh -- a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire ... 6771. tsame -- thirsty 7301. ravah -- to be saturated, drink one's fill Library I Thirst for Love Thirst and Satisfaction The Thirst of God "The Spiritual Thirst (Which was in Him from Without Beginning) is ... Knox Little -- Thirst Satisfied The Divine Hunger and Thirst Whether Pleasure Causes Thirst or Desire for Itself? The Thirst of the Rich Man in Hell Does not Prove the Soul to be ... The Divine Hunger and Thirst. December 14. LM Miss Bremer. Thirst for Living Waters. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1. (n.) A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.2. (n.) Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold. 3. (n.) To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink. 4. (n.) To have a vehement desire. 5. (v. t.) To have a thirst for. Thesaurus Thirst (40 Occurrences)... 2. (n.) Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold. ...THIRST. ... /t/thirst.htm - 20k Quench (14 Occurrences) Thirsty (38 Occurrences) Thirsted (6 Occurrences) Nakedness (50 Occurrences) Parched (37 Occurrences) Toil (66 Occurrences) Drinketh (33 Occurrences) Drinks (28 Occurrences) Sleepless (2 Occurrences) Bible Concordance Thirst (40 Occurrences)Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Matthew 25:35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. Matthew 25:42 for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; John 4:13 Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." John 4:15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw." John 6:35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. John 7:37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! John 19:28 After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty." Romans 12:20 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head." 1 Corinthians 4:11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. 2 Corinthians 6:5 by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil, by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst; 2 Corinthians 11:27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. 1 Peter 2:2 Thirst, like newly-born infants, for pure milk for the soul, that by it you may grow up to salvation; Revelation 7:16 They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat; Exodus 17:3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?" Deuteronomy 8:15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint; Deuteronomy 28:48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you. Judges 15:18 He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?" 2 Chronicles 32:11 Doesn't Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Nehemiah 9:15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded those who they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them. Nehemiah 9:20 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn't withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. Job 24:11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst. Psalms 69:21 They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. Psalms 104:11 They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst. Proverbs 25:21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink: Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst. Isaiah 29:8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that. Isaiah 41:17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. Isaiah 48:21 They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out. Isaiah 49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water he will guide them. Isaiah 50:2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst. Isaiah 65:13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed; Jeremiah 2:25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. Jeremiah 46:10 For that day is a day of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. Jeremiah 48:18 You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds. Lamentations 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them. Hosea 2:3 Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh. Amos 8:13 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst. Subtopics Thirst: Figurative of the Ardent Desire of the Devout Mind Related Terms Links Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus |
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