שָׁאַב
sha.av (H7579)
to draw
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# Sha'av (שָׁאַב): Drawing and Extraction in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word *sha'av* carries the fundamental meaning of "to draw," referring to the physical action of pulling or extracting something. With 19 occurrences across the biblical text, this verb describes a concrete, practical activity rather than an abstract concept. The word encompasses various contexts where something is actively removed or pulled from a source—whether drawing water from a well, extracting a sword from its sheath, or other similar acts of retrieval. The word's presence in biblical narrative suggests it was an important part of everyday life and descriptive language. Its relatively modest frequency (19 occurrences) indicates it served a specific communicative function rather than being a dominant or frequently used term. The consistency of its core meaning across these instances—the physical act of drawing or extracting—demonstrates that Hebrew speakers and writers used this particular word when they needed to convey the action of pulling something from a location or container with precision and clarity.
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He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.”
She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”
then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’
Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’
your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,
The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.
Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.
Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”
They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”
The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.
The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but David would not drink any of it, but poured it out to Yahweh,
Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.