matsah (to drain)

Meaning

To drain, drain out(Qal) to drain, drain out · (Niphal) to be drained out

How it's translated

and it will be drained out 1
it will be drained out 1
and he drained 1
they are drained 1
they will drain 1
you have drained 1
and you will drain 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Leviticus 2
Psalms 2
Judges 1
Isaiah 1
Ezekiel 1

5 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Leviticus 5:9And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
Judges 6:38And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
Psalms 73:10Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
Psalms 75:8For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Ezekiel 23:34Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

Hebrew dictionary

מָצָה matsah · to drain

1) to drain, drain out 1a) (Qal) to drain, drain out 1b) (Niphal) to be drained out

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “drain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DRAIN, verb transitive

To filter; to cause to pass through some porous substance.
To empty or clear of liquor, by causing the liquor to drop or run off slowly; as, to drain a vessel or its contents.
To make dry; to exhaust of water or other liquor, by causing it to flow off in channels, or through porous substances; as, to drain land; to drain a swamp or marsh.
To empty; to exhaust; to draw off gradually; as, a foreign war drains a country of specie.

All definitions and other forms of “drain”

DRAIN, verb intransitive

To flow off gradually; as, let the water of low ground drain off.
To be emptied of liquor, by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain; let the cloth hand and drain

DRAIN, noun

A channel through which water or other liquid flows off; particularly, a trench or ditch to convey water from wet land; a watercourse; a sewer; a sink.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.