to drink
pino describes drinking in ordinary meals and thirst, and in some sayings receiving a cup or life-giving water.
The verb most often denotes drinking as an ordinary act, whether with meals, from water or wine, or in abstaining from drink. It also occurs in sayings about drinking a “cup” and in passages where water or blood is named within the immediate statement; Hebrews 6:7 extends the action to land receiving rain.
Senses in use
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Drinking in ordinary eating, thirst, and abstinence · dominant
The present forms occur alongside eating and daily provision: in Luke 10:7 the APB renders the household practice “eating and drinking what they provide,” and in 1 Corinthians 10:31 it renders the broad alternative “whether you eat or drink.” The aorist infinitive in Acts 23:12 is part of an oath to “neither eat nor drink,” while the present participle πίνων in John 4:13 concerns everyone drinking from the water and thirsting again.
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Drinking a cup in a stated calling or ordeal · occasional
In Matthew 20:22, the aorist infinitive πιεῖν is tied to the question of being able to drink the cup Jesus is about to drink; the APB renders the clause “drink the cup.” Matthew 20:23 uses the future form πίεσθε for the assurance that they will drink that cup, and John 18:11 frames the cup as what the Father has given Jesus.
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Drinking named water or blood in Jesus’ sayings · occasional
In John 4:14, the aorist subjunctive πίῃ is used of whoever drinks the water Jesus will give, which the APB says becomes “a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The present participle πίνων in John 6:54 and John 6:56 is joined to eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking his blood; the APB connects this act respectively with eternal life and remaining in him.
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Land receiving rain · rare
Hebrews 6:7 applies the aorist participle πιοῦσα to land: the APB renders land that has “drunk the rain” and then produces a suitable crop. The clause presents receiving rain as the action before the crop is produced.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB commonly renders the action with “drink,” including meal settings, water, wine, and cups; it also renders Hebrews 6:7 as land having “drunk the rain.” Its wording confirms the clauses’ presentation without fixing every individual English correspondence.