ὑδρεύω
draw water
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὑδρεύω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 12 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 24:11 ὑδρεύω And he rested his camels without the city by the well of water towards evening, when damsels go forth to draw water.
- Genesis 24:19 ὑδρεύω And she said, I will also draw water for your camels, till they shall all have drunk.
- Genesis 24:20 ὑδρεύω And she hasted, and emptied the water-pot into the trough, and ran to the well to draw again, and drew water for all the camels.
- Genesis 24:43 ὑδρεύω behold, I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city come forth to draw water, and it shall be that the damsel to whom I shall say, Give me a little water to drink out of your pitcher,
- Genesis 24:44 ὑδρεύω and she shall say to me, Both drink you, and I will draw water for your camels, this shall be the wife whom the Lord has prepared for his own servant Isaac; and hereby shall I know that you have wrought mercy with my master Abraam.
- Genesis 24:45 ὑδρεύω And it came to pass before I had done speaking in my mind, straightway Rebecca came forth, having her pitcher on her shoulders; and she went down to the well, and drew water; and I said to her, Give me to drink.
- Judges 5:11 ὑδρεύω you⌃ that are delivered from the noise of disturbers among the drawers of water; there shall they relate righteous acts: O Lord, increase righteous acts in Israel: then the people of the Lord went down to the cities.
- Ruth 2:9 ὑδρεύω Let your eyes be on the field where my men shall reap, and you shall go after them: behold, I have charged the young men not to touch you: and when you shall thirst, then you shall go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men shall have drawn.
- 1 Samuel 7:6 ὑδρεύω And they were gathered together to Massephath, and they drew water, and poured it out upon the earth before the Lord. And they fasted on that day, and said, We have sinned before the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Massephath.
- 1 Samuel 9:11 ὑδρεύω As they went up the ascent to the city, they find virgins who had come out to draw water, and they say to them, Is the seer here?
- 2 Samuel 23:16 ὑδρεύω And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well that was in Bethleem in the gate: and they took it, and brought it to David, and he would not drink it, but poured it out before the Lord.
- 1 Chronicles 11:18 ὑδρεύω And the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and they drew water out of the well that was in Bethleem, which was in the gate, and they took it, and came to David: but David would not drink it, and poured it out to the Lord, and said,
About this word
About this word
ὑδρεύω (hydreúō), “draw water,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 12 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →