διψάω
dipsaō
“to thirst”
Definition
to thirst for (literally or figuratively)
from a variation of G1373 (δίψος);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Verb
G:V
Greek Verb
Occurrences
διψάω appears 16 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,
And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
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