Râvâh — H7301

Definition

verb

to slake the thirst (occasionally of other appetites)

1. to be satiated or saturated, have or drink one's fill
1. (Qal) to take one's fill
2. (Piel)
1. to be drunk, be intoxicated
2. to drench, water abundantly, saturate
3. (Hiphil) to saturate, water, cause to drink

Usually translated as

make drunk, fill, satiate, satisfy, water, bathe, soak

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• methýō (G3184)

Occurrences

Râvâh occurs 14 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Psalms (2), Proverbs (3), Isaiah (5), Jeremiah (3), Lamentations (1)

• Psalms 36:8 — They shall be abundantly satisfied (יִ֭רְוְיֻן) with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
• Psalms 65:10 — Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly (רַ֭וֵּה): thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
• Proverbs 5:19 — Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy (יְרַוֻּ֣ךָ) thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
• Proverbs 7:18 — Come, let us take our fill (נִרְוֶ֣ה) of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
• Proverbs 11:25 — The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth (וּ֝מַרְוֶ֗ה) shall be watered also himself.
• Isaiah 16:9 — Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water (אֲרַיָּ֙וֶךְ֙) thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
• Isaiah 34:5 — For my sword shall be bathed (רִוְּתָ֥ה) in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
• Isaiah 34:7 — And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked (וְרִוְּתָ֤ה) with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
• Isaiah 43:24 — Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled (הִרְוִיתָ֑נִי) me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
• Isaiah 55:10 — For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth (הִרְוָ֣ה) the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
• Jeremiah 31:14 — And I will satiate (וְרִוֵּיתִ֛י) the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
• Jeremiah 31:25 — For I have satiated (הִרְוֵ֖יתִי) the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
• Jeremiah 46:10 — For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk (וְרָוְתָ֖ה) with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
• Lamentations 3:15 — He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken (הִרְוַ֥נִי) with wormwood.