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ποτίζω

to give drink

‘to give drink’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓

G4222 Strong's Greek
potízō Transliteration
/pot-id'-zo/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 15 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“to give drink” is the headline sense of the Greek verb ποτιζω (potízō). First canonically at Matthew 10:42, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 15 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in Matthew. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 15-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
give to drink
Modern gloss
to give drink
Strong's 1890 agrees
Strong's 1890 and current Thayer scholarship align on this entry's primary sense — a good signal that the gloss above is unambiguous and stable. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G4222 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

15
distinct verses
The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
6 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 10:42
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 10:42.
Revelation 14:8
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 14:8.
#768
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 8 · 53%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 6 · 40%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 1 · 7%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 8 verses · 53%
  • Pauline corpus 6 verses · 40%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 7%
  • Johannine 1 verse · 7%
  • Revelation 1 verse · 7%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Drink 7×, Gave 2×, He that watereth 2×
  • American Standard Version: Drink 7×, Gave 2×, Ye gave 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Gives 2×, Held it up for to drink 2×, Waters 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Drink 9×, Give 3×, Gives 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4222 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Drink” 7×
  • “Gave” 2×
  • “He that watereth” 2×
  • “Ye gave” 2×

Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4222 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Drink” 7×
  • “Gave” 2×
  • “Ye gave” 2×

Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4222 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Gives” 2×
  • “Held it up for to drink” 2×
  • “Waters” 2×

Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4222 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Drink” 9×
  • “Give” 3×
  • “Gives” 2×
  • “It” 2×
  • “Watering” 2×

Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to give to drink, to furnish drink
  2. to water, irrigate (plants, fields etc.)
  3. metaph. to imbue, saturate one's mind

Word origin

Derived from πινω (pínō) (G4095) — to drink.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 08:39,8

From a derivative of the alternate of G4095 ; to furnish drink irrigate : - give (make) to drink feed water.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 11 distinct written forms G4222 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ποτίζων potízōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 Corinthians 3:7 2
ποτίσῃ potísē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 10:42 2
ἐποτίσατέ epotísaté Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 25:35 2
ἐπότιζεν epótizen Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 27:48 2
πεπότικεν pepótiken Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 14:8 1
ποτίζει potízei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 13:15 1
πότιζε pótize Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Romans 12:20 1
ἐποτίσαμεν epotísamen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Matthew 25:37 1
ἐποτίσθημεν epotísthēmen Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 Corinthians 12:13 1
ἐπότισα epótisa Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 Corinthians 3:2 1
ἐπότισεν epótisen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 3:6 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4222, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ποτιζω appears 59 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 57 verses in 19 books.

59
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
57
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
19 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4222) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 57. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4222) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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