רָוָה
to saturate
‘to saturate’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘be intoxicated’
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
1 verse where H7301 appears in the Qal stem in the Book of Jeremiah. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah
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.
The Hebrew verb רוה centers on the idea of “to saturate.” As a verb its force shifts by stem, across 4 stems (Qal, Piel, and more). It appears 14 verses across 5 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Isaiah (36%), then Proverbs and Jeremiah. Its earliest occurrence is Psalms 36:8. Dig into 14-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7301 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 57%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 43%
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: Hast thou filled 1×, He hath made me drunken 1×, He that watereth 1×
- American Standard Version: Abundantly 1×, Hast thou filled 1×, Hath drunk 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Has drunk its fill 1×, He has intoxicated me 1×, He who refreshes others 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 1×, Drench you 1×, Has slaked 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7301 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7301 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7301 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7301 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Hophal (the passive of Hiphil).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 fs. consec. וְרָֽוְתָה מִדָּמָם Je 46:10, fig. of sword (‖ שָֽׂבְעָה, אָֽכְלָה); Impf. 3 mpl. יִרְוְיֻן כִ דֶּשֶׁן בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ ψ 36:9 (Ges§ 75 u) fig. of men (‖ תַּשְׁקֵם); 1 pl. נִרְוֶה דֹדִים Pr 7:18 we will take our fill of love (‖ נִתְעַלְּסָה). e.g. Jeremiah 46:10
Piel
- Pf. 3 fs. רִוְּתָה Is 34:5, וְר׳ consec. v 7; 1 s. consec. וְרִוֵּיתִי Je 31:14; Impf. 1 s. sf. אֲרַיָּ֫וֶךְ Is 16:9 (read prob. אֲרַוַּ֫יִךְ MargolisAm. J. Sem. Lang., Oct. 1902, 48, vid. also Köi. 589 f.; > אֲרַוָּ֫יֶךְ Sta§ 634 e Ges§ 75 dd); 3 mpl. sf. יְרַוֻּךָ Pr 5:19; Inf. abs. רַוֵּה ψ 65:11 (Ges§ 113 z);— e.g. Isaiah 34:5
- 1. intens. be intoxicated, drunk Is 34:5, fig. of sword; + מִדָּם v 7, of land (‖ יְדֻשָּׁ֑ן). e.g. Isaiah 34:5
- 2. causat., drench, water abundantly, c. acc. תְּלָמֶיהָ ψ 65:11; Is 16:9 c. acc. pers. + דִּמְעָתִי material; saturate (fig.), sate, ור׳ נֶפֶשׁ הַכֹּהֲנִים דָּ֑שֶׁן Je 31:14 (‖ שׂבע); sexually, דַּדֶּיהָ יְרַוֻּךָ Pr 5:19. e.g. Psalms 65:11
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. הִרְוָה Is 55:10, sf. הִרְוַנִי La 3:15; 2 ms. sf. הִרְוִיתָ֑נִי Is 43:24; 1 s. הִרְוֵיתִי Je 31:25; Pt. מַרְוֶה Pr 11:25;—saturate, water, c. acc. ארץ Is 55:10 (subj. שֶׁלֶג, גֶּשֶׁם); cause to drink (fig.), c.acc. pers.etrei (לַעֲנָה) La 3:15 (‖ הִשְׂבִּיעַנִי); c. acc. pers. only (נֶפֶשׁ) Je 31:25 (‖ מִלֵּאתִי), abs. Pr 11:25; of Isr. satisfying י׳, חֵלֶב זְבָתִים Is 43:24. e.g. Isaiah 55:10
Hophal
- Impf. יוּרֶא (יָרְוֶה?) Pr 11:25 v. Toy and ירא p. 432. e.g. Proverbs 11:25
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. be saturated, drink one’s fill (NH in der. spec.; Arabic رَوِىَ; Ethiopic ረወየ: Aramaic רְוִי, ܪܘܳܐ );—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
רָוָה
- , v. רוי
רוי
- (b. h.) to be moist, be saturated, drip. Y. Maasr. I, 49ᵃ top משיִרְווּ (not שיורו), v. מַרְוִית.
- to saturate; to refresh; trnsf. to delight. B. Bath. 14ᵇ; Ber. 7ᵇ (play on רוּת) שזכתה … שׁרִיוָּהוּ להקב"ה וכ׳ she was privileged in that from her descended David, who delighted the Lord with songs and hymns.
- same. Midr. Till. to Ps. CL (ref. to Is. XXXIV, 5) [read:] מַרְוֶה אותה ומפילהו לשרה וכ׳ he saturates it (the sword with blood), and brings her tutelary angel to fall, and then it (the sword) will come down upon her (Rome; v. Cant. R. to VIII, 14). e.g. Isaiah 34:5
- to be saturated, refreshed. Gen. R. s. 33 ירדו … ונ׳ העולם rain fell, and the world was refreshed; Lev. R. s. 34 (not ונתרווח); Yalk. Lev. 665; Yalk. Ps. 888 (corr. acc.). Y. M. Kat. III, 82ᶜ bot. כשם שׁנִתְרַוִּיתֶם וכ׳ as you were saturated with the oil of inauguration for seven days &c.; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 14 distinct written forms H7301 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7301, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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