To quench
רָוָהStrong’s H7301ravah (ra-vah)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ravah is the Hebrew word usually translated “take their fill”, “watering” and “may they satisfy you”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.”
Meaning
- To be satiated or saturated, have or drink one's fill(Qal) to take one's fill · (Piel) · (Hiphil) to saturate, water, cause to drink
How it's translated
- they take their fill 1
- watering 1
- may they satisfy you 1
- let us take our fill of 1
- and gives water 1
- i water abundantly you 1
- it has drunk its fill 1
- and it will drink its fill 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Proverbs 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Psalms 2
- Lamentations 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 65:10Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
- Proverbs 5:19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
- Proverbs 7:18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
- Proverbs 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
- Isaiah 16:9Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
- Isaiah 34:5For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Hebrew dictionary
רָוָה ravah · to quench
1) to be satiated or saturated, have or drink one's fill 1a) (Qal) to take one's fill 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to be drunk, be intoxicated 1b2) to drench, water abundantly, saturate 1c) (Hiphil) to saturate, water, cause to drink
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “quench” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
QUENCH, verb transitive
- To extinguish; to put out; as, to quench flame.
- To still; to quiet; to repress; as, to quench a passion or emotion.
- To allay or extinguish; as, to quench thirst.
- To destroy.
All definitions and other forms of “quench”
- To check; to stifle; as, to quench the Spirit.
QUENCH, verb intransitive
To cool; to become cool.
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.