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Strong's #1372 - διψάω
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- to suffer thirst, suffer from thirst
- figuratively, those who are said to thirst who painfully feel their want of, and eagerly long for, those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, strengthened
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διψ-άω,
1. late διψ-ώω Tryph. 548, AP 11.57 (Agath.): Ion. διψ-έω Archil. 68; part. διψεῦσα AP 6.21; contr. 3 sg. διψῇ Pi. N. 3.6, Pl. Phlb. 35b; inf. διψῆν Hdt. 2.24, S. Fr. 735, Ar. Nu. 441, etc.: impf. 3 sg. ἐδίψη Hp. Epid. 3.1. β,γ (διψᾷς, -ᾷ, -ᾶν only in later writers, APl. 4.137 (Phil.), Pl. Ax. 366a, LXX Isaiah 29:8, Gal. 5.837): fut. -ήσω X. Mem. 2.1.17: aor. ἐδίψησα Pl. R. 562c: pf. δεδίψηκα Hp. Cord. 2, Plu. Pomp. 73: — Med. (v. infr.): — thirst, στεῦτο δὲ διψάων [ᾱ ] Od. 11.584, etc.; of the ground, to be thirsty, parched, Hdt. 2.24; δ. ὑπὸ καύματος Alc. 39.2; of trees, Thphr. CP 3.22.5: — Med., διψώμεθα Hermipp. 25.
2. metaph., δ. τινός thirst after a thing, Pi. N. 3.6; ἐλευθερίας Pl. R. 562c: later c. acc., δ. Χῖον Teles p.8 H.; φόνον APl. 4.137 (Phil.); δικαιοσύνην Matthew 5:6; αἷμα J. BJ 1.32.2; also δ. πρὸς τὸν θεόν LXX Psalms 41:2(42).2: c. dat., ὕδατι ib. Exodus 17:3 : c. inf., διψῶ χαρίζεσθαι ὑμῖν X. Cyr. 5.1.1; ἀκρατῶς ἐδίψη οἴνου πίνειν Ael. VH 2.41, etc.
διψάω, διψῶ, subjunctive present 3 person singular δίψα (John 7:37 Romans 12:20; often so from the Maced. age on for the Attic δίψῃ, cf. Winers Grammar, § 13, 3 b.; (Buttmann, 44 (38)); Lob. ad Phryn., p. 61); future διψήσω; 1 aorist ἐδίψησα; (δίψα, thirst); (from Homer down); to thirst;
1. absolutely, to suffer thirst; suffer from thirst: properly, Matthew 25:35, 37, 42, 44; John 4:15; John 19:28; Romans 12:20; 1 Corinthians 4:11; figuratively, those are said to thirst who painfully feel their want of, and eagerly long for, those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, strengthened: John 4:13; John 6:35; John 7:37; Revelation 7:16; Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:17; (Sir. 24:21 (
2. with an accusative of the thing desired: τήν δικαιοσύνην, Matthew 5:6, (Psalm 62:2
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διψάω ,-ῶ
(< δίψα , thirst),
[in LXX chiefly for H6770;]
to thirst: absol., Matthew 25:35; Matthew 25:37; Matthew 25:42; Matthew 25:44, John 4:13; John 4:15; John 19:28, Romans 12:20 (LXX), 1 Corinthians 4:11; fig., John 4:14; John 6:35; John 7:37, Revelation 7:16; Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:17; c. acc (= cl. c. gen.), τ . δικαιοσύνην , Matthew 5:6.†
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The verb is found in no. 3 of the first discovered collection of Λόγια Ἰησοῦ, P Oxy I. p. 3,—λέγει Ἰ (ησοῦ)ς Ἔ [σ ]την ἐν μέσω ̣ τοῦ κόσμου καὶ ἐν σάρκει ὤφθην αὐτοῖς καὶ εὗρον πάντας μεθύοντας καὶ οὐδένα εὗρον δειψῶντα ἐν αὐτοῖς κτλ. See also the late metrical epitaph from Rome, Cagnat I. 317.11 (= IGSI 1890) ψυχῇ διψώσῃ ψυχρὸν ὕδωρ μετάδες (l. -δος).
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.