Parallel Verses

Amplified

Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar.”

New American Standard Bible

Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar.”

King James Version

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

Holman Bible

Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”

International Standard Version

Then Abraham's servant ran to meet her and asked her, "Please, let me have a sip of water from your jug."

A Conservative Version

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher.

American Standard Version

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher.

Bible in Basic English

And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel.

Darby Translation

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, sip a little water out of thy pitcher.

Julia Smith Translation

And the servant will run to meet her, and he will say, Give me to drink now a little water from thy bucket

King James 2000

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray you, drink a little water of your pitcher.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the servant ran to meet her. And he said, "Please, let me drink a little of the water from your jar."

Modern King James verseion

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Please let me drink a little water of your pitcher.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then the servant ran unto her and said, "Let me sip a little water of thy pitcher."

NET Bible

Abraham's servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a sip of water from your jug."

New Heart English Bible

The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."

The Emphasized Bible

And the servant ran to meet her, - and said, I pray thee let me drink a little water out of thy pitcher.

Webster

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water from thy pitcher.

World English Bible

The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."

Youngs Literal Translation

And the servant runneth to meet her, and saith, 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher;'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the servant
עבד 
`ebed 
Usage: 800

ran
רוּץ 
Ruwts 
Usage: 103

to meet her
קראה 
Qir'ah 
Usage: 99

and said

Usage: 0

Let me, I pray thee, drink
גּמא 
Gama' 
Usage: 2

a little
מעט מעט 
M@`at 
Usage: 101

References

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Morish

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Context Readings

Abraham's Servant Finds A Wife For Isaac

16 The girl was very beautiful, a virgin and unmarried; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up. 17 Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar.” 18 And she said, “Drink, my lord”; and she quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink.



Cross References

John 4:7

Then a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink”—

Genesis 26:1-35

Now there was a famine in the land [of Canaan], besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

1 Kings 17:10

So he set out and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks [for firewood]. He called out to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a jar, so that I may drink.”

Isaiah 21:14


Bring water for the thirsty [Dedanites],
O inhabitants of the land of Tema [in Arabia];
Meet the fugitive with bread.

Isaiah 30:25

On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams of water on the day of the great slaughter (the day of the Lord), when the towers fall [and all His enemies are destroyed].

Isaiah 35:6-7


Then the lame will leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy.
For waters will break forth in the wilderness
And streams in the desert.

Isaiah 41:17-18


“The poor and needy are seeking water, but there is none;
Their tongues are parched with thirst.
I, the Lord, will answer them Myself;
I, the God of Israel, will not neglect them.

Isaiah 49:10


“They will not hunger or thirst,
Nor will the scorching heat or sun strike them down;
For He who has compassion on them will lead them,
And He will guide them to springs of water.

John 4:9

The Samaritan woman asked Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.)

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