'Water' in the Bible
Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;
To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
when water becomes as hard as stone,and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
Can you command the cloudsso that a flood of water covers you?
Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
He takes his rest under the trees of the river, and in the pool, under the shade of the water-plants.
"Can you draw Leviathan out of the water with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope?
He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Then the channels of water appeared,And the foundations of the world were laid bareAt Your rebuke, O Lord,At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
He reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me from the surging water.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
He takes me to lush pastures, he leads me to refreshing water.
The Lord's shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the Lord appears over the surging water.
For this reason every one of your faithful followers should pray to you while there is a window of opportunity. Certainly when the surging water rises, it will not reach them.
He gathered the oceans into a single place; he put the deep water into storehouses.
{To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
though its waters roar [and] foam, though mountains shake with its surging [water]. Selah
Sprinkle me with water and I will be pure; wash me and I will be whiter than snow.
They will vanish like water that flows by;they will aim their useless arrows.
Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
{A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed.
Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
Say sharp words to the beast among the water-plants, the band of strong ones, with the lords of the peoples, put an end to the people whose delight is in war.
For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” Davidic.Save me, God,for the water has risen to my neck.
I am sinking in deep mire, and there is no solid ground. I have come into deep water, and the flood overwhelms me.
Rescue me from the mud! Don't let me sink! Deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep water!
May the flood of water not overflow meNor the deep swallow me up,Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Therefore God's people return there and drink it all in like water until they're satiated.
You split the sea by your own power. You shattered the heads of sea monsters in the water.
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
He split the sea and brought them across;the water stood firm like a wall.
He caused the rocks to split in the wilderness, and gave them water as from an abundant sea.
He brought streams out of the stoneand made water flow down like rivers.
Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;torrents overflowed.But can He also provide breador furnish meat for His people?”
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water.
O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
Above the sound of the surging water, and the mighty waves of the sea, the Lord sits enthroned in majesty.
He lays the beams of his roof loft on the water above, making clouds his chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
You covered the primeval ocean like a garment; the water stood above the mountains.
They supply water for every wild beast;the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
He turned their water into blood, so that the fish died.
He opened a rock, and water gushed out;it flowed like a stream in the desert.
He shouted at the Red Sea and it dried up; he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.
Water covered their foes;not one of them remained.
They witnessed the acts of the Lord, his amazing feats on the deep water.
He turns rivers into desert,springs of water into thirsty ground,
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.
Mine eyes run down with streams of water, because they keep not thy law.
The water would have overpowered us; the current would have overwhelmed us.
The raging water would have overwhelmed us.
A song of ascents. From the deep water I cry out to you, O Lord.
to the one who spread out the earth over the water, for his loyal love endures,
“Let burning coals fall upon them;Let them be thrown into the fire,Into deep [water] pits from which they cannot rise.
I reach out my hands to You;My throat thirsts for You, as a parched land [thirsts for water]. Selah.
Reach down from heaven;rescue me from deep water, and set me freefrom the grasp of foreigners
He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.
He sends out his word and melts them. He makes his wind blow and the water flows.
Drink water from your own cistern,water flowing from your own well.
Should your springs flow in the streets,streams of water in the public squares?
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
When He set for the sea its boundarySo that the water would not transgress His command,When He marked out the foundations of the earth;
“Stolen water is sweet,and bread eaten secretly is tasty!”
A generous person will be enriched,and the one who gives a drink of waterwill receive water.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
Good news from a distant landis like cold water to a parched throat.
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
Who has ascended [to] heaven and come down? Who has gathered [the] wind in the hollow of his hand? Who has wrapped water in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What [is] his name and what is the name of his child? For [surely] you know.
The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.
Spread your bread on the water after a while you will find it.
before the silver cord is removed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the well, or the water wheel is broken at the cistern --
A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.
You are a garden spring,a well of flowing waterstreaming from Lebanon.
His eyes are like dovesbeside streams of water,washed in milkand set like jewels.
Mighty bodies of water cannot extinguish love, rivers cannot put it out. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, he would surely be viewed with contempt.
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
All of them will come and settlein the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks,in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes.
None will harm or destroy anotheron My entire holy mountain,for the land will be as fullof the knowledge of the Lordas the sea is filled with water.
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
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- Floodwaters (11 instances in 5 translations)
- Headwaters (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Rainwater (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Saltwater (1 instance in 2 translations)
- Snow-water (1 instance in 2 translations)
- Snow-waters (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Springwater (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Unwatered (4 instances in 3 translations)
- Water's (5 instances in 3 translations)
- Water-brooks (6 instances in 2 translations)
- Water-courses (17 instances in 8 translations)
- Water-drinker (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Water-gate (5 instances in 2 translations)
- Water-hens (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Water-jug (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Water-jugs (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Water-spring (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Water-springs (18 instances in 8 translations)
- Water-vessels (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Watercourse (6 instances in 6 translations)
- Watercraft (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Waterdrops (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Watered (39 instances in 13 translations)
- Wateredst (1 instance in 3 translations)
- Waterer (2 instances in 3 translations)
- Waterest (2 instances in 3 translations)
- Watereth (9 instances in 4 translations)
- Waterfalls (1 instance in 8 translations)
- Waterflood (3 instances in 3 translations)
- Watering (21 instances in 11 translations)
- Watering-places (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Watering-troughs (1 instance in 2 translations)
- Waterless (7 instances in 9 translations)
- Waterpot (1 instance in 4 translations)
- Waterpots (2 instances in 4 translations)
- Waters (407 instances in 13 translations)
- Watershed (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Waterside (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Waterskin (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Waterspouts (1 instance in 3 translations)
- Watertight (3 instances in 2 translations)
- Waterways (12 instances in 3 translations)
- Watery (16 instances in 4 translations)
- Well-watered (9 instances in 8 translations)
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- Abundance, Material
- Bad Water
- Baptism
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- Division Of Waters
- Drawing Water
- Drinking Water
- Dry Land
- Dry Places
- Floods
- Flowing Water
- God Providing Water
- God's Voice
- Holy Spirit, Types Of
- Like Water
- Living Water
- Man Providing Water
- Metaphorical Springs
- Metaphorical Watering
- No Water For People
- Pools
- Pouring Water
- Provision From Rocks
- Repulsive Food
- Rivers
- Running Water From God
- Sea
- Seeking Water
- Spring Of Water
- Sprinkling Water
- Swamped
- The Holy Spirit Described As Water
- The Ocean
- The Water Of Life
- Things Like Water
- Thirst
- Unclean Until Evening
- Walking On Water
- Walking Through Water
- Water
- Water Channel
- Water Containers
- Water For Baptism
- Water For Plants
- Water Irrigation
- Water, As A Symbol Of Affliction
- Water, As A Symbol Of Life
- Water, As A Symbol Of Salvation
- Waters Divided
- Waters Dividing
- Waters Drying Up
- Waters Of Affliction
- Waters Subsiding
- Wells
- Wells, Figurative Use
- Lakes
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