sha.tah denotes taking a liquid to drink, whether water, wine, or a drink refused, commanded, or shared at a meal.

The verb consistently marks the act of consuming a liquid: people drink water for need or provision, drink wine in meals and celebration, and at times are commanded or forbidden to do so. The same action is also used in refusals, fasts, and figurative-sounding speech about drinking what is called “blood” in the verse.

1. Taking water, wine, or another liquid · dominant

   Across the supplied verses, the forms identify the act of taking a beverage or liquid: in 1 Kings 17:6 the APB renders that Elijah “drank from the wadi,” and in Daniel 1:12 it renders a request for “water to drink.” The act occurs with meals and feasts in 1 Chronicles 29:22 and 2 Kings 6:23, with wine in Amos 9:14, and as something refused or prohibited in 1 Kings 13:16 and Esther 4:16. In 1 Chronicles 11:19, the speaker rejects drinking water brought at risk to others and calls it their “blood,” so the clause still concerns whether to drink what was brought.

   1 Kings 17:6Daniel 1:121 Chronicles 29:22Amos 9:141 Kings 13:161 Chronicles 11:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB generally presents the action with “drink,” including water from a wadi, wine, and drinking at meals. Because the translation gives whole verses rather than word-by-word alignment, its phrasing confirms the surrounding action rather than supplying a separate lexical distinction.