To drench
צְבַעStrong’s H6648tseva (tse-va)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tseva is the Hebrew word usually translated “colored cloth”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?”
Meaning
- To dip, wet (something)(Pael) to wet · (Ithpael) to be wet
How it's translated
- colored cloth 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
צְבַע tseva · to drench
1) to dip, wet (something) 1a) (Pael) to wet 1b) (Ithpael) to be wet
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “drench” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRENCH, verb transitive
[G., to water, to soak. See Drink and Drag.]
- To wet thoroughly; to soak; to fill or cover with water or other liquid; as garments drenched in rain or in the sea; the flood has drenched the earth; swords drenched in blood.
- To saturate with drink.
- To purge violently.
All definitions and other forms of “drench”
DRENCH, noun
A draught; a swill; also, a portion of medicine to purge a beast, particularly a horse. Hence, a violent dose of physic to be forced down the throat.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.