Trough
שֹׁ֫קֶתStrong’s H8268shoqet (sho-qet)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shoqet is the Hebrew word usually translated “watering channel” and “watering channels of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.”
Meaning
- Watering trough
How it's translated
- the watering channel 1
- in watering channels of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
שֹׁ֫קֶת shoqet · trough
watering trough
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “trough” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TROUGH, noun
trauf.
- A vessel hollow longitudinally, or a large log or piece of timber excavated longitudinally on the upper side; used for various purposes.
- A tray. [This is the same word dialectically altered.]
- A canoe; the rude boat of uncivilized men.
- The channel that conveys water, as in mills.
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.