רָוָה râvâh — to slake the thirst (occasionally of other appetites)
Translated in the KJV as bathe, make drunk, fill, satiate, satisfy, soak, water.
a primitive root; to slake the thirst (occasionally of other appetites).
râvâh in each stem
Pi'el
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive absolute 1Jussive 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
Let 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.
Therefore 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.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 4Participle (active) 1
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Cohortative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›