to thirst
dipsao describes being thirsty, whether needing drink or expressing a desire framed by water, righteousness, or life.
The verb most often describes thirst as a bodily need for drink, including hunger-and-thirst settings and the promise that people will thirst no more. It also occurs in sayings about water that prevents future thirst or is offered to the thirsty, and in clauses joining thirst with righteousness, coming, or trusting.
Senses in use
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Experiencing need for drink · dominant
In Matthew 25:35 the APB renders a speaker as thirsty and receiving water, while Matthew 25:42 contrasts this with receiving no drink. The present participles in Matthew 25:37 and Matthew 25:44 identify the person seen as thirsting, and Romans 12:20 places the present subjunctive in the condition of giving an enemy drink.
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Thirst addressed by water and life · common
In John 4:13 and John 4:14, future forms contrast drinking from one water and thirsting again with receiving water that prevents future thirst. John 7:37 uses a present subjunctive in the invitation, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink,” while Revelation 21:6 and Revelation 22:17 speak of giving or taking the water of life for the thirsty.
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Thirst joined with righteousness or trust · occasional
Matthew 5:6 uses a present participle for those who “hunger and thirst for righteousness,” with satisfaction promised in the verse. In John 6:35, the future form appears alongside coming and trusting, and the APB renders the clause as never thirsting.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly renders the verb with “thirst,” “thirsty,” or “thirsting,” including the contrast between thirsting again and never thirsting in John 4:13 and John 4:14. Its wider wording about water, righteousness, trust, and life confirms the clauses without fixing a separate English rendering for every form.