sha.qah denotes causing people, animals, land, or vegetation to receive liquid, including supplying a drink and irrigating.

The verb most often describes supplying someone or an animal with a drink, whether water, wine, milk, or another specified liquid. It also describes water reaching land, gardens, trees, and flocks; in several contexts, making someone drink is an imposed or harmful act, while one Niphal occurrence occurs in imagery of the land rising and subsiding.

1. Giving a person or animal something to drink · dominant

   The Hiphil forms regularly occur where a person supplies liquid to another person or to livestock. In Genesis 24:14 the APB renders the requested action toward the camels as “water your camels,” while Exodus 2:17 describes Moses after drawing water as having “watered their flock”; Genesis 21:19 similarly places the action after filling a skin with water for the youth.

   Genesis 24:14Genesis 21:19Exodus 2:17Genesis 29:7Judges 4:19Proverbs 25:21
2. Watering land, gardens, and growing things · common

   The Hiphil forms describe liquid reaching cultivated ground or vegetation: Genesis 2:10 has a river going out “to water the garden,” and Ecclesiastes 2:6 has pools made “to water a forest of growing trees.” Deuteronomy 11:10 places the action in sowing seed and watering a vegetable garden, while Isaiah 27:3 presents continued watering of a vine.

   Genesis 2:10Ecclesiastes 2:6Deuteronomy 11:10Isaiah 27:3Ezekiel 17:7Ezekiel 32:6
3. Making someone drink in imposed or harmful settings · occasional

   Here the Hiphil clause makes drinking an action imposed on its recipient. In Numbers 5:24 the APB renders the priest’s action, “He shall make the woman drink the bitter water,” and Jeremiah 25:17 describes making the nations drink from the cup received from the LORD; Amos 2:12 likewise concerns making Nazirites drink wine.

   Numbers 5:24Numbers 5:26Numbers 5:27Jeremiah 25:15Jeremiah 25:17Amos 2:12
4. Land rising and subsiding in flood imagery · rare

   Amos 8:8 contains a Niphal sequential perfect in a clause where the land rises like the Nile and then subsides. The APB presents the whole image but does not isolate this form’s specific contribution, so its relation to the other liquid-supply contexts remains uncertain.

   Amos 8:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly uses “water,” “gave... a drink,” and “make... drink,” according to the recipient and setting. Because the APB translates whole clauses rather than aligning each Hebrew form, these renderings confirm the scenes without fixing a separate English equivalent for every occurrence.